6: Axial and Appendicular Skeleton

Question 1

What constitutes the axial skeleton?

Answer 1

Skull, vertebral column, thoracic cage

Question 2

What constitutes the appendicular skeleton?

Answer 2

Pectoral girdle, upper limb, pelvic girdle, lower limb

Question 3

Is the frontal bone paired or unpaired?

Answer 3

Unpaired

Question 4

Is the sphenoid bone paired or unpaired?

Answer 4

Unpaired

Question 5

Is the ethmoid bone paired or unpaired?

Answer 5

Unpaired

Question 6

Is the lacrimal bone paired or unpaired?

Answer 6

Paired

Question 7

Is the nasal bone paired or unpaired?

Answer 7

Paired

Question 8

Is the temporal bone paired or unpaired?

Answer 8

Paired

Question 9

Is the zygomatic bone paired or unpaired?

Answer 9

Paired

Question 10

Is the maxilla paired or unpaired?

Answer 10

Paired

Question 11

Is the mandible paired or unpaired?

Answer 11

Unpaired

Question 12

What bone is known as the keystone of the skull?

Answer 12

Sphenoid

Question 13

Is the occipital bone paired or unpaired?

Answer 13

Unpaired

Question 14

Is the vomer paired or unpaired?

Answer 14

Unpaired

Question 15

Is the palatine bone paired or unpaired?

Answer 15

Paired

Question 16

What is the name for a baby’s soft spot?

Answer 16

Fontanelle

Question 17

What are the 4 major types of fontanelles?

Answer 17

Anterior fontanelle
Posterior fontanelle
Sphenoid fontanelle
Mastoid fontanelle

Question 18

What is the largest sinus?

Answer 18

Maxillary Sinus

Question 19

What lines the sinuses?

Answer 19

Mucous membranes

Question 20

What is the name for excessive lateral spine curvature?

Answer 20

Scoliosis

Question 21

What two structures form the weight-bearing structures of the spine?

Answer 21

Vertebral body and intervertebral disc

Question 22

What two structures form the vertebral arch?

Answer 22

Pedicle and Lamina

Question 23

What are the processes of the vertebrae?

Answer 23

Transverse, spinous, articular

Question 24

What are the two types of vertebral formamen?

Answer 24

Vertebral and intervertebral

Question 25

What two ligaments extend the length of the vertebral column on the vertebral body?

Answer 25

Anterior longitudinal ligament Posterior Longitudinal ligament

Question 26

What ligament is a discontinuous ligament that bridges the interlaminar space?

Answer 26

Ligamentum flavum

Question 27

What ligaments are BETWEEN the spinous processes of the vertebrae?

Answer 27

Interspinous ligaments

Question 28

What ligament is mostly continuous on the whole vertebral column and is the most posterior?

Answer 28

Supraspinous ligament

Question 29

What are the outside and inside layers of the vertebral disc?

Answer 29

Outside: Annulus fibrosis Inside: Nucleus pulposis

Question 30

What bones form the pectoral girdle?

Answer 30

Clavicle and scapula

Question 31

What joint joins the pectoral girdle to the axial skeleton?

Answer 31

Sternoclavicular joint

Question 32

How many carpals?

Answer 32

8

Question 33

How many metacarpals?

Answer 33

5

Question 34

How many phalanges?

Answer 34

14

Question 35

Where does the Os coxa articulate with the axial skeleton?

Answer 35

The sacroiliac joint

Question 36

How many tarsals are there?

Answer 36

7

Question 37

How many metatarsals are there?

Answer 37

5

Question 38

How may phalanges are there?

Answer 38

14

Question 39

What are the two phalanges of the big toe called?

Answer 39

Hallux

Question 40

What are the two phalanges of the thumb called?

Answer 40

Pollex