6 The Skeleton!!!!!

Question 1

What is a condyle?

Answer 1

Large, smooth, round, oval articulating structure

Question 2

What is a facet?

Answer 2

Small, flat, shallow, articulating surface

Question 3

What is a bone head?

Answer 3

Prominent rounded epiphysis

Question 4

What is a trochlea ?

Answer 4

Smooth, grooved, pulley-like articular process

Question 5

What is an alveolus?

Answer 5

Deep pit or socket in mandible or maxillae

Question 6

What is a fossa?

Answer 6

Flattened or shallow depression

Question 7

What is a sulcus?

Answer 7

A narrow groove

Question 8

What is a crest?

Answer 8

A narrow, prominent, ridge-like projection

Question 9

What is an epicondyle?

Answer 9

A projection adjacent to a condyle

Question 10

What is a bony line?

Answer 10

A low ridge

Question 11

What is a process?

Answer 11

Any bony prominence

Question 12

What is a trochanter?

Answer 12

A massive, rough projection found only on the femur

Question 13

What is a tubercle?

Answer 13

A small rounded projection of bone

Question 14

What is a tuberosity?

Answer 14

A large, roughened projection.

Question 15

What is a canal?

Answer 15

A passageway through a bone

Question 16

What is a fissure?

Answer 16

A narrow, slit-like opening through a bone

Question 17

What is a foremen?

Answer 17

A rounded passageway through a bone

Question 18

Sinus

Answer 18

A cavity or hollow space in a bone

Question 19

What are the paranasal sinuses lined with?

Answer 19

Mucous membranes

Question 20

What is the function of sinuses?

Answer 20

Make skull lighter, resonate sound, warm and humidify air

Question 21

How many cervical vertebrae are there?

Answer 21

7

Question 22

How many thoracic vertebrae?

Answer 22

12

Question 23

How many lumbar vertebrae?

Answer 23

5

Question 24

How many vertebrae make up the sacrum?

Answer 24

5, fused

Question 25

How many vertebrae in the coccyx?

Answer 25

4, fused

Question 26

What are the two structures that make up the intervertebral disks?

Answer 26

Nucleus pulposus and annulus fibrosis.

Question 27

What makes up the nucleus pulposus?

Answer 27

Gelatinous fluid, high water content to absorb stress.

Question 28

What makes up the annulus fibrosus?

Answer 28

Outer layer is ligament. Inner layer fibrocartilage

Question 29

How many true ribs are there and what numbers are they?

Answer 29

Seven. T1-T7

Question 30

How many false ribs and what numbers are they?

Answer 30

Five. T8-T12

Question 31

What numbers are the floating ribs?

Answer 31

T11-T12

Question 32

What is a cleft lip/cleft palate?

Answer 32

Incomplete fusion of the two facial maxilae

Question 33

What is the frequency of cleft palate births?

Answer 33

1/1000 babies

Question 34

What is the clinical term for a hunchback.

Answer 34

Kyphosis.

Question 35

What is the clinical name of a swayback?

Answer 35

Lordosis

Question 36

What about a laterally curved spine?

Answer 36

Scoliosis

Question 37

What was thalidomide used for?

Answer 37

A sleep aid and off label as a remedy for morning sickness.

Question 38

What conditions does thalidomide cause?

Answer 38

Plolydactyly, meromelia, phocomelia, amelia.

Question 39

What is phocomelia?

Answer 39

Short, poorly formed, fin-like limb.

Question 40

What is meromelia?

Answer 40

The partial absence of a limb.