✅The Axial Skelton

Question 1

How are bones classified?

Answer 1

By shape

Question 2

What are the shapes?

Answer 2

• Long bones
• Short bones
• Flat bones
• Irregular bones
• Sesamoid bones
• Sutural Bones

Question 3

What are the two types of skeleton?

Answer 3

Axial skeleton

Appendicular skeleton

Question 4

How many bones are in the entire skeleton?

Answer 4

206

Question 5

What does the axial skeleton consist of?

Answer 5

• Skull and associated bones
• Vertebral column
• ribs and sternum

Question 6

How many bones in the longitudinal axis make up the axial skeleton?

Answer 6

80

Question 7

What are the bone groups in the skull?

Answer 7

• 8 cranial bones
• 14 facial bones
• 6 Auditory ossicles 2x(malleus, incus, stapes)
• 1 hyoid

Question 8

What bones are in the cranium?

Answer 8

Occipital bone 1 
Parietal bones 2 
Frontal bone 1 
Temporal bones 2
 Sphenoid bone 1
 Ethmoid bone 1

Question 9

What bones are in the face?

Answer 9

Maxillary bones 2 
Palatine bones 2 
Nasal bones 2 
Vomer 1
Inferior nasal conchae 2 
Zygomatic bones 2
 Lacrimal bones 2 
Mandible 1

Question 10

How are the bones in the skull connected?

Answer 10

Sutures (except mandible)

Question 11

What are the five sections of the spine called?

Answer 11

Cervical, Thoracic, Lumbar, Sacral, Coccygeal.

Question 12

How many vertebrae are in the cervical region?

Answer 12

7

Question 13

How many vertebrae are there in the thoracic region?

Answer 13

12

Question 14

How many vertebrae are in the lumbar region

Answer 14

5

Question 15

What are the 3 types of ribs?

Answer 15

True,false and floating

Question 16

What ribs are the true ribs?

Answer 16

1-7

Question 17

What are the false ribs?

Answer 17

8-12

Question 18

What are the floating ribs?

Answer 18

11 and 12