Skeletel Terms

Question 1

Comes from Greek word meaning dried up body

Answer 1

Skeleton

Question 2

What accounts for 20% of body weight?

Answer 2

Skeleton

Question 3

What does skeleton consist of?

Answer 3

Bones, cartilage, joints, ligamemts

Question 4

How many bones in body?

Answer 4

206

Question 5

Forms long axis of body includes skull, vertebral column, and ribacage

Answer 5

Axial Skeleten

Question 6

Forms pectoral girdle, pelvic bones, bones of arms, hands, legs, and feet

Answer 6

Appendicular Skeleton

Question 7

Narrow ridge of bone usually sharp and prominent

Answer 7

Crest

Question 8

Hook like structure, Greek meaning crows beak

Answer 8

Coracoid

Question 9

Rounded projection that articulates (join another bone) Latin for knuckle

Answer 9

Condial

Question 10

A bump or protuberance on a long bone where tendons and ligaments connect

Answer 10

Epicondyle

Question 11

A smooth nearly flat articulating surface; little faces

Answer 11

Facet

Question 12

Narrow cliff like passage

Answer 12

Fissure

Question 13

Round or oval opening through a bone; a hole

Answer 13

Foramen

Question 14

Shallow depression, concave or convex

Answer 14

Fossa

Question 15

Canal or opening to a tube

Answer 15

Meatus

Question 16

Prominence or projection

Answer 16

Process

Question 17

A slender pointed projection

Answer 17

Spine

Question 18

Large blunt somewhat rounded process

Answer 18

Trocanter

Question 19

A nodule or slight elevation from surface of bone

Answer 19

Tubercle

Question 20

A process larger than a tubercle

Answer 20

Tuberosity