1 Bones and Joints

Question 1

What is the purpose of the skeleton?

Answer 1

Support
Movement
Protect organs
Maintain shape
Mineral and lipid storage
Haemopoiesis

Question 2

What is the axial skeleton?

Answer 2

The central bones- protect the vital organs

Skull, Vertical column, Rib cage

Question 3

What is the appendicular skeleton?

Answer 3

Bones in the limbs

Question 4

List the 5 different types of bone

Answer 4

Long
Short
Flat
Irregular
Sesamoid

Question 5

What is a tuberosity?

Answer 5

A roughened, rounded elevation

Question 6

What is a tubercle?

Answer 6

A small elevation

Question 7

What is a spinous process?

Answer 7

A slender projection

Question 8

What is a trochanter?

Answer 8

A large projection of the femur

Question 9

What is a condyle?

Answer 9

Large prominence or rounded surface

Question 10

What is an epicondyle?

Answer 10

A smaller prominence above a condyle

Question 11

What is a facet?

Answer 11

A flattened surface for joint/muscle contraction

Question 12

What is a crest?

Answer 12

A ridge

Question 13

What is a sinus?

Answer 13

A hollow space

Question 14

What is a meatus?

Answer 14

A tunnel or canal

Question 15

What is a fossa?

Answer 15

A depression

Question 16

What is a foramen?

Answer 16

A hole or opening

Question 17

What is a notch?

Answer 17

A large groove

Question 18

What is a joint?

Answer 18

An articulation between two or more bones

Question 19

What is a fibrous joint?

Answer 19

Fixed connections made of fibrous connective tissue

Question 20

When do sutures in the skull form and why?

Answer 20

Sutures are joints in the skull. They form after birth so the plates can slide over each other in delivery.

Question 21

When does gomphosis occur?

Answer 21

When structures are pegged into sockets eg. teeth

Question 22

What is a fibrous joint between two bones called?

Answer 22

Syndesmosis joint

Question 23

What is a cartilaginous joint?

Answer 23

Bones joined by cartilage

Question 24

What type of joint uses hyaline cartilage?

Answer 24

Synchondrosis primary cartilaginous joints

Question 25

What joints use fibrocartilage?

Answer 25

Symphysis secondary cartilaginous joints

Question 26

Where are synovial joints found?

Answer 26

In the limbs

Question 27

List three things a synovial joint has

Answer 27

Articular capsule Synovial fluid Articular cartilage

Question 28

Where are saddle joints found?

Answer 28

Concave and convex joint surfaces eg. wrist

Question 29

What movements does a plane joint allow?

Answer 29

Gliding or sliding | Eg. in the foot

Question 30

What movements does a hinge joint allow?

Answer 30

Permits flexion and extension only | Eg. elbow

Question 31

What movements does a ball and socket joint allow?

Answer 31

Permits movement in several axes

Question 32

What movements does a condyloid joint allow?

Answer 32

Flexion, extension, adduction, abduction, circumduction | Eg. metacarpal-phlangial junction

Question 33

What movement does a pivot joint allow?

Answer 33

Allows rotation | Eg. neck

Question 34

How many bones are in the body?

Answer 34

206