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How many bones is the skull comprised of?
28 bones.
What is the mandible
The Jawbone
What is the parietal bone?
Actually two bones that make up the back left and right quadrants of the skull.
What is the occipital bone?
The bone that makes the bottom of the skull on the posterior end.
What is the temporal bone?
The two bones around the ears.
What is a suture?
An immovable joint between flat bones of the skull.
The palatine bones makes up what part of the skull?
The palatine bonES make up the back of the roof of the mouth?
What is the mastoid process?
It is the projection of bone on the temporal bone that many muscles attach to.
What is a process?
A projection of bone.
What do inferior and superior mean in anatomy?
They mean lower/higher to help us orient ourselves.
What is a lateral view?
It means “away from the middle” or “from the side”.
What is the frontal bone?
The frontal bone makes up the forehead.
What is the sphenoid bone?
They are the bones right behind your temples.
What are the two lacrimal bones?
It is something in the bridge of the nose.
What are the nasal bones?
They are the two bones that make up the bridge of your nose.
What are the zygomatic bones?
They are the bones that make up the “cheekbones”, and they also make the zygomatic arch which forms the bridge on outside of eyes.
What are the maxillae?
They are the bones that contain the upper section of teeth. There are two of these bones.
What is the ethmoid bone?
It is the bone between the eyes.
What is a meatus?
A passageway.
What is a foramen?
A hole.
What is the vomer?
The vomer forms the bony part of the nasal septum which divides the nasal cavity in two.
What is a sinus?
A hollowed space in a bone.
The sinuses in the bones associated with the nasal cavity are called what?
The paranasal sinuses.
What are the two orbits?
The eye sockets which are comprised of seven bones.
What are long bones
A bone that is longer than it is wide, but not flat ie. femur.
What are short bones?
A bone that is about as wide as it is long, like the Carpals.
What are flat bones?
Bones that may be long, but are thin and are usually curved, like the ribs.
What are irregular bones?
A bone that does not fit any of the other categories, like a vertebra.
What are sesamoid bones?
Round, flat bones that develop inside tendons, like the patella.
What is compact bone?
Dense bone matrix organized into microscopic tubes of bone called osteons.
What is Cancellous bone?
Networks of bone with many marrow-filled spaces surrounding the bone matrix.
What is ossification?
Bone formation
Articular cartilage
Hyaline cartilage that covers the ends of a bone in a joint.
What is the Axial skeleton?
The portion of the skeleton that support and protects the head, neck and trunk.
What is the appendicular skeleton?
The portion of the skeleton that attaches to the axial skeleton and has the limbs attached to it.
What makes up the Axial Skeleton?
The skull, thoracic cage, and the vertebral column.
What makes up the appendicular Skeleton?
The pectoral girdle, the pelvic girdle, and the upper and lower limbs.
The Pectoral Girdle is made of what bones?
The clavicles and the scapula.
What bones make up the arm and forearm?
The arm is made of just the humerus, and the forearm is made of the radius and the ulna. The radius is on the side of the thumb.
What bones make up the pelvic girdle?
The two coxae and the sacrum.
What bones make up the thigh and the leg?
The thigh is just the femur and the leg is made of the tibia and fibula, which connect at the knee where the patella bone is also there.
How many bones are in your hands, feet, ancles, and wrists combined?
106 bones.
How many bones are in each hand and wrist?
27 bones.
How many bones are in each foot and ancle?
26 bones.
How many of each type of bone do the feet have?
14 phalanges, 5 metatarsals, and 7 tarsals. Both the hands and the feet have the same number of phalanges and metatarsals.
How many of each type of bone do the hands have?
14 phalanges, 5 metatarsals, and 8 Carpals. Both the hands and the feet have the same number of phalanges and metatarsals.
What bones make up the wrist?
8 short bones called carpals.
What bones make up the ankle?
Seven short bones called tarsals.
How many auditory ossicles are there?
Six.
What are the five sections of the vertebral column?
The cervical vertebrae, the thoracic vertebrae, the lumbar vertebrae, a sacrum, and a coccyx.
How many cervical vertebrae are there?
Seven
How many thoracic vertebrae are there?
Twelve.
How many lumbar vertebrae are there?
Five.
How many bones are in the vertebral column?
26
What are the intervertebral disks?
The tough fibrocartilage that snugly joins the bodies of the vertebrae that stops them from rubbing each other.
