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Anatomy 2.1 Skeletal Flashcards

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What are the two main parts of the skeletal system?

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Axial and appendicular

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Axial skeleton

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Consists of bones of the head, neck, and trunk

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Appendicular skeleton

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Consists of the bones of the limbs, including those forming the pectoral and pelvic girdles

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Bone

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Living tissue that is highly specialized (hard form of connective tissue that makes up most of the skeleton)

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What does the bones provide?

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Support to the body

Protection of vital structures

Mechanical basis of movement

Storage for salts

Continuous supply of new RBC

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Perichondrium

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Around cartilage

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Compact bone

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80% of lamellar bone (high density used for weight bearing activity)

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Spongy bone

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Less dense bone

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Long bone

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Are tubular

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Short bones

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Are cuboidal and found only in the tarsus and carpus

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Flat bones

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Serve protective functions

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Irregular bones

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Various shapes other than long, short, or flat

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What do sesamoid bones do for the tendons?

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They protect them from excessive wear and often change the angle of the tendons as they pass to their attachments

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Where do bone markings appear?

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Wherever tendons, ligaments, and fascias are attached or where arteries lie adjacent to or enter bones

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Crest

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Ridge of bone

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Epicondyle

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Eminence superior or adjacent to a Condyle

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Foramen

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Passage through a bone

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Line (linea)

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Linear elevation (sometimes called a ridge)

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Malleolus

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Rounded process

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Process

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Extension or projection serving a particular purpose, having characteristic shape, or extending in a particular direction

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Protuberance

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Bulge or projection of bone

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Spine

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Thorn like process

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Trochanter

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Large blunt elevation

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Intramembranous ossification (membranous bone formation)

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Mesenchymal models of bones form during the embryonic period, and direct ossification of the mesenchyme begins in the fetal period

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Endochondral ossification (cartilaginous bone formation)
Cartilage models of the bones form from mesenchyme during the fetal period, and bone replaces most of cartilage
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Primary ossification center
The bone tissue it forms replaces most of the cartilage in the main body of the bone model
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Secondary ossification center
Appear in other parts of the developing bone after birth
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Epiphyses
Parts of the bone ossified by the secondary ossification center
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Metaphysis
Flared part of the diaphysis nearest the epiphysis
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Epiphyseal line
The seam formed during the fusion process of the plates and is particular dense
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Synostosis
Fusion process of epiphyseal plates
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Nutrient arteries
One or more per bone and they pass obliquely through the compact bone of the shaft of a long bone through a nutrient foramina (supplies blood to bone marrow, spongy home, and deeper portions of compact bone)
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Veins
Accompany arteries through the nutrient foramina
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Joints
Unions or junctions between two or more bones of the skeleton
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What type of joints are there?.
No movement (epiphyseal plates) Slight movement (teeth) Freely movable (shoulder joint)
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Fibrous joints
United by fibrous tissue (amount of movement occurring at fibrous joints depends on the length of the fibers uniting the articulating bones)
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What are types of fibrous joints?
Suture Syndesmosis
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Suture
Bones held close together (interlocking along a wavy line or overlapping)
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Syndesmosis
Unities the bone with a sheet of fibrous tissue (partially moveable)
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Cartilaginous joints
United by hyaline cartilage or fibrocartliage
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Synchondrosis (primary cartilaginous)
Permits slight bending during early life (temporary unions) (united by hyaline cartilage)
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Symphysis (secondary cartilaginous)
Strong, slightly movable joints united by fibrocartilage (intervertebral disks)
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What is the most common type of joint?
Synovial joint
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What do synovial joints provide?
Free movement between the bones they join (locomotion)
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Plane/gliding joints
Permit gliding and sliding movements in the plane of articular surfaces (numerous and always small)
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What are the types of synovial joints?
Plane/gliding Hinge Saddle Condyloid Ball and socket Pivot
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Hinge joint
Permit flexion and extension only
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What is the joint capsule of hinge joints?
Thin and lax anteriorly and posteriorly where movement occurs
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What type of movements are hinge joints for?
Movements that occur in one plane (Saggital)
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Saddle joints
Permit abduction and adduction as well as flexion and extension
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What movements occur around a saddle joint?
Around two axes at right angles to eachother (allow movement in Saggital and frontal plane)
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What joint is a hinge joint known as?
Uniaxial joint
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What joint is a saddle joint known as?
Biaxial joint
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Condyloid joint
Permit flexion and extension as well as abduction and adduction (biaxial)
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Ball and socket joint
Allows movement in multiple axes and planes
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What type of movement does the ball and socket joint allow?
Flexion and extension Abduction and adduction Medial and lateral rotation Circumduction (multiaxial)
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Pivot joint
Permit rotation around a central axis (uniaxial)
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Accessory (supernumerary) bones
Develop when additional ossification centers appear and form extra bones
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Heterotopic bones
When bones form in soft tissues where they are not normally present
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What happens to unused bones (paralyzed)?
Atrophy (decrease in size)
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When would bones be absorbed?
Occurs in the mandible when teeth are extracted
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What happens to bones that support increased weight for a long period?
Hypertrophy (enlarge)
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What happens during bone healing?
Surrounding fibroblasts secret collagen which forms a collar of callus to hold bones together
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Osteoporosis
Reduction in quantity of bone
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Fractures involving the epiphyses may cause what?
Stunting of growth
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When does proliferation of cartilage at the metaphyses slow down?
During starvation and illness
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Avascular necrosis
Death of bone tissue due to loss of arterial supply to the epiphysis
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What could a displaced epiphyseal plate be mistaken for?
Fracture
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What could a separation of an epiphysis be interpreted as?
Displaced piece of fractured bone
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Degenerative joint disease
Breakdown of joints due to heavy use over the years (osteoarthritis)
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Arthroscopy
Procedure to allow surgeons to examine joints for abnormalities (torn meniscus)
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What are the cartilaginous joints?
Synchondrosis (primary cartilaginous) Symphysis (secondary cartilaginous)
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Ligaments
Provide restraint in specific directions
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What are types of ligaments?
Intrinsic (capsular) Extrinsic (non capsular)
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Concave on convex
If moving joint surface is convex sliding is in the opposite direction of bone
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Convex on concave
If moving joint surface is concave sliding is in the same direction as the movement of bone
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What connective tissue is the skeletal system made of?
Dense regular connective tissue Cartilage, bone, and adipose
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Where in the skeletal system do we find hyaline cartilage?
Over articular surface of bones within synovial joints Ends of long bones
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What kind of tissue is the capsule?
Dense connective tissue
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What are the two different types of bone tissue?
Woven and Lamellar
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Lamellar
Remodeled from woven bone and is present in normal regions of adult bone
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What are two types of lamellar bone?
Compact and cancellous (spongy)
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Where do joints form?
Where bones are joined

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