VN17 Test

Question 1

What makes up the skeletal system

Answer 1

All bones in body, cartilage, tendons, ligaments

Question 2

What is the function of ossification and what does that mean

Answer 2

• process of laying down new bone material by cells named osteoblasts
• ossification means the formation of bone

Question 3

How many types of ossification

Answer 3

2 types of ossification

• intramembranous ossification
• endochrondral ossification

Question 4

Replacement of sheet like connective tissue membranes with bony tissue

Answer 4

Intramembranous ossification

Question 5

Replacement of hyaline cartilage with bony tissue

Answer 5

Endochondral ossification

Question 6

What are Lacunae and what do they contain

Answer 6

Tiny cavities located between two lamellae or rings of bone

They contain an osteocyte or bone cell suspended in tissue fluid

Question 7

Breaking of a bone or associated cartilage

Answer 7

Fracture

Question 8

The shaft or central part of long bone

Answer 8

Diaphysis

Question 9

Thin bones found whenever there is a need for extensive muscle attachment or protection for soft or vital parts of the body.

Answer 9

Flat bones

Question 10

Where is the frontal bone

Answer 10

Forehead , roof of nasal cavity , the orbits , which are the bony sockets that contain the eye

Question 11

What is the opening in the occipital bone and what is significant about it

Answer 11

Foramen magnum

It functions as a passage of the central nervous system through the skull connecting the brain with the spinal cord

Question 12

Help form lower sides and base of the cranium

Consists of 4 parts: squamous, petrous, mastoid, and tympanic

Answer 12

Temporal bone

Question 13

Forms anterior portion of the base of the cranium

- viewed from below looks like a butterfly

Answer 13

Sphenoid bone

Question 14

What bones form bridge of nose

Answer 14

The nasal bones

Question 15

What is the strongest bone in the jaw

Answer 15

Mandible bone

Question 16

What are verterbrae

Answer 16

26 bones that make up the spinal column

Question 17

What’s another name for sternum

Answer 17

Breastbone

Question 18

What are true ribs

Answer 18

The upper seven pairs that articulate directly with the sternum

Question 19

Largest and longest bone of the upper arm

Answer 19

Humerus

Question 20

Or thigh, is the largest and heaviest bone of the body

Answer 20

Femur

Question 21

Or kneecap, is the largest of the sesamoid bones

Answer 21

Patella

Question 22

Of the foot are the calcenus or heel, the talus or ankle, the navicular, and the three cuneiforms

Answer 22

Tarsal