Vocab Flashcards
Axial Skeleton
The skull and spine
Appendicular Skeleton
The rest of the skeleton
Compact bone
Dense, smooth bone
Spongy bone
small, needle like pieces of bone with lots of open space
Long Bones
Bones that are longer then they are wide (Limbs)
Short Bones
Cube shaped and contain mostly spongy bone (Wrist and ankle)
Flat bones
Thin, flattened and curved (Ribs)
Irregular bones
Do not fit into any other categories (hip and vertebrae)
Diaphysis
The shaft of a bone
Periosteum
fibrous connective tissue protecting the Diaphysis
Epiphyseal line
Thin line of bony tissue
Comminuted fracture
Bone breaks into many fragments
Compression fracture
Bone is crushed
Depressed fracture
Broken bone portion is pressed inward
Impacted fracture
Broken bone ends are forced into each other
Spiral fracture
Ragged break caused by twisting forces
Greenstick fracture
Bone breaks incompletely
Hematoma
Blood filled swelling when a bone breaks
Cranium
Your skull which is made up of 8 bones
Occipital bone
Most posterior bone of the cranium
Vertebral column
Your vertebrae in the pelvic bone
Vertebrae
The bones that make up your spine (33)
Intervertebral discs
Pads of flexible fibrocartilage between the vertebrae
Cervical vertebrae
C1-C7
Thoracic Vertebrae
T1-T12
Lumbar vertebrae
L1-L5
Sacrum
5 fused vertebrae at the bottom
Coccyx
4 fused vertebrae (tailbone)
Sternum
Bone that your rubs connect into in the middle of your chest
Ribs
Twelve pairs of ribs
Clavicle
Your collarbone
Humerus
Long arm bone
Radius
The lateral bone on the left side of the thumb
Ulna
Medial bone on the little finger side
Carpal bones
Bones in your wrist
Metacarpals
Bones in the palm of the hand
Phalanges
Finger bones
Pelvic Girdle
Your hip bones
Femur
The bone in your thigh
Tibia
The shinbone
Fibula
Lies alongside the tibia
Metatarsals
Bones of the foot
