Skeletal vocab Flashcards
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Axial skeleton
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The trunk of the body (excluding arms and legs)
2
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Cervical
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Top 7 vertebrae of the spine
3
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Coccyx
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Lower tip of the spine
4
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Diaphysis
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The shaft of a long bone
5
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Distal skeleton
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The bones furthest from the axial skeleton (so, the lower arms, lower legs, hands, and feet)
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Epiphysis
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The knob ending of a long bone
7
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Intervertebral disc
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The cartilage cushion between the spine’s vertebrae
8
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Lumbar
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The five spinal vertebrae below the thoracic (the lower back)
9
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Metaphysis
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Where the diaphysis meets the epiphysis
10
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Proximal skeleton
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Upper arms and legs (bones closest to the Axial skeleton)
11
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Sacrum
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Vertebrae within the pelvic girdle. They fuse in the late teenage years
