Upper Limb

Question 1

What skeleton are the upper limbs part of?

Answer 1

Appendicular skeleton

Question 2

What are the upper limbs?

Answer 2

The upper appendage consists of the upper arm, forearm, and the hand

Question 3

What bone makes up the upper arm? What injuries can occur?

Answer 3

Humerus. Injury: dislocation

Question 4

Where does the humerus connect?

Answer 4

Joins proximally at the scapula making the shoulder joint and distally with the forearm making the elbow joint

Question 5

True or false: the humerus is the longest and strongest bone of the arm.

Answer 5

True

Question 6

What forearm bone is medial? What injuries can occur?

Answer 6

Ulna. Injuries; dislocation, fracture

Question 7

What forearm bone is lateral? What injuries can occur?

Answer 7

Radius (lines up with thumb). Injuries: dislocation, fracture.

Question 8

What bones make up the hand?

Answer 8

Carpals, Metacarpals, and phalanges

Question 9

How many carpals are there? Name all.

Answer 9

8 carpals: scaphoid, Lunate, Triquetrum, pisisform (on top), Hamate, Capitate, trapezoid, trapezium.

Question 10

How many Metacarpals are there?

Answer 10

5 metacarpals.

Question 11

How many phalanges are there? What are the sections?

Answer 11

14 phalanges: proximal phalanx, intermediate phalanx, distal phalanx.

Question 12

True or False: There is an intermediate phalanx in the thumb.

Answer 12

False.