The Axial Skeleton Flashcards
How many bones form the typical adult skeleton?
206
How Amy bones are in the typical adult appendicular skeleton?
126
How many bones form the typical adult axial skeleton?
80
What bones form the axial skeleton?
The skull, hyoid, vertebral column, sternum and ribs
What is the name given to the adult skull minus the mandible?
The cranium
What are the names given to the top of the adult skull?
Calvaria or calva
What are the categories of bone forming the typical adult skull?
The neurocranium, the facial skeleton( splanchocranium or visceral cranium) and the auditory ossicles
What is the total number of bones forming the typical adult skull?
28
How many bones form the typical adult neurocranium?
8
What is the facial skeletons?
The bones that support the face
What bones form the facial skeleton?
Mandible, vomer, nasal, maxilla, lacrimal, inferior nasal concha, palatine and zygomatic
How many bones form the facial skeleton?
14
What bones form the splanchocranium?
Vomer, nasal, maxilla, lacrimal, inferior nasal concha, palatine and zygomatic
How many bones form the typical adult auditory ossicles?
6
How many bones are present in the adult hyoid?
1
What is the umber of bones compromising each region of the typical adult spinal column?
7 c’s, 12 t’s, 5 l’s, 1 sacrum and 1 coccyx
What is the name given to the parasacral region of the typical adult vertebral column?
The spine
What is the total number of bones forming the typical adult spines?
24
What I’d the definition of “spine” as it pertains to the vertebral column?
The pre-sacral region of the vertebral column or spinal column.
How many bones are ores t in the typical adult sternum?
1
What regions are present along the typical adult sternum?
The manubrium sterni, the corpus sterni and the xiphoid process
How many ribs are present in the typical adult skeleton?
12 pairs or 24 ribs
