Week 2 Flashcards
A tooth socket.
Aveolus.
Bones of the limbs.
Appendicular skeleton.
Bones on or near the bodies midline.
Axial skeleton.
To fit, join or unite.
Articulate.
A large protein molecule that comprises of 90% of bones content.
Collagen.
Dense bone found an external surfaces of bones and the walls of the shafts of long bones.
Cortical or compact bone.
The bones of the skull.
Cranial skeleton.
A system for summarizing the number of each type of tooth in each quadrant of the mouth.
Gentle formula.
The teeth and their arrangement.
Dentition.
Interlocking plates between vertebrae.
Facets.
Cartilaginous space between cranial bones in an infant.
Fontanelle.
A hole through a bone.
Foramen.
A shallow depression.
Fossa.
A pit-like depression.
Fovea.
A mineral composed of calcium phosphate that makes up the inorganic component of bone.
Hydroxyapatite.
Mature compact bone.
Lamellar.
The action of osteoblastic and osteoclastic activity to sculpt bone during growth and development into its final form.
Modeling.
Morphology.
Shape.
Bones forming the sides, top and back of the braincase also called the cranial vault.
Nerocranium.
Unmeasurable anomalies in the normal anatomy of skeleton.
Non-metric trait.
The study of teeth.
Odontology.
Bone forming cells.
Osteoblasts.
Bone resorbing cell.
Osteoclast.
Mature bone cells.
Osteocytes.
The process of mineralization of bones during development.
Osteogenesis.
The process of bone formation and mineralization.
Ossification.
Basic structural unit of bone.
Osteon.
The skeleton below the skull.
Postcranial.
The action of osteoblastic and osteoclastic activity to repair microdamage throughout life.
Remodeling.
An air pocket in the cranium.
Sinus.
Bones of the face.
Splanchnocranium.
Spongy porous bone.
Trabecular bone.
The principle of bone remodeling to fit it’s biomechanical function.
Wolff’s Law.
Unorganized bone formed rapidly during growth and fracture repair.
Woven bone.
