Osteoporotic patient suffers a crush fracture. What is most likely damaged?
vertebral body
Pivot joint of the neck consists of which vertebrae?
C1 and C2 (atlantoaxial joint I think it’s called)
All of the following bones are unpaired except?
Frontal
The clavicle is part of the ____ skeleton
appendicular
What bone connects the pectoral girdle to the axial skeleton?
clavicle
Test to detect cancer
Bone scan
Fovea is located on which bone?
femur
Which is not part of the group? (foramen magnum, rotundum, spinosum, lacerum, mental foramen)
mental foramen (it’s in the mandible)
What is the best way to find fracture in dens?
A-P open mouth x-ray
Which two vertebrae do not have a disk between them?
C1 and C2
What passes through the scapular notch?
suprascapular nerve
Which skull feature is palpable?
mastoid process
A water’s view x-ray allows you to see
sinusitis
The odontoid process (dens) is found on the
axis
The thinnest part of the skull is called the
pterion
What runs under the pterion?
Middle Meningeal Artery
What is the smallest bone of the skull?
lacrimal
What carpal bones articulate with the radius?
Scaphoid and lunate
Which bone does most of the action of pronation
radius
An example of a syndesmoses joint is
radius and ulna
Which bone looks like a pipe wrench?
ulna
What is the point of the shoulder?
coracoid process
Transmits the axillary nerve and circumflex humeral artery
quadrangular
Transmits circumflex scapular artery
triangular space
The vertebral prominens is part of which vertebra?
C7
Damage to which muscle will prevent abduction of the arm over the head?
supraspinatus
Separation of maxillary and facial bones from the skull is called
LeFort fracture
The crista galli is part of which bone?
ethmoid
The pituitary gland is superior to which sinus?
Sphenoid
Strangulation breaks which bone?
Hyoid (the answer said hyoid cartilage…which is stupid)
Spaces from unfused bones at birth are called
fontanels
Empty nose syndrome is a result of having what removed?
Inferior nasal conchae
What is an example of a sesamoid bone?
patella
What is the most anatomically complex bone in the human body?
sphenoid
What is the joint between alveolar bone and a tooth called?
gomphosis
What are the proximal and distal carpal bones?
Proximal: Scaphoid, Lunate, Triquetrum, Pisiform
Distal: Trapezium, Trapezoid, Capitate, Hamate