Skeletal System Flashcards
Short bones
Tarsals and carpals
Ankles and wrists
Long bones
Legs clavicle arms hand feet fingers and toes
Bones store
Calcium salts and phosphorous
2 types of bone tissue
Compact and cancellous
Haversian canals are
Canals containing blood vessels nerves and lymph capillaries that run within compact bone tissue
What’s cancellous bone like
Spongy contains bone marrow found at the end of long bones
Number of cranium bones
8
Number of face bones
14
Vertebral bones
33 some fused so 26
Sternum
3
Rib bones
12 pairs
Number and organisation of spine
C7 T12 L5 S5 Coccyx 4
Sternum consists of
Manubrium
Body
Xiphoid peocess
What does appendicular skeleton do
Attach limbs to body
Shoulder girdle upper limbs and pelvic hurdle and lower limbs
Shoulder girdle consists of
Scapula and clavicle
Pelvic girdle consists of
Ilium ischium and pubis
How many bones in the wrist (carpals)
8
Name the carpals
Nearest to arm:
Scaphoid, lunate tri quetral pisiform
SLTP
Trapezium. Trapezoid, Capitate, Hamate
TTCH
How many tarsals in the ankle
7
Biggest tarsal
Talus
Type of synovial joints
Ball and socket
Hinge elbow
Glide tarsals and carpals
Pivot (move around 1 axis) atlas and axis.
Saddle move around 2 axis flex ion and extension addiction and abduction - wrist and thumb
How many types of fractures
6
A compound fracture
Bone pierces skin through open wound
Comminuted fracture
A bone broken in several places
