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Sagital Plane

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Splits the body into left and right

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Coronal Plane

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splits the body into posterior and anterior portions

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Transverse Plane

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splits the body into superior and inferior portions

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What is another name for the coronal plane?

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Frontal

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What is another name for the transverse plane?

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Horizontal

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What are the 4 tissue types?

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Epithelial, connective, nerve, muscle

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What are the three muscle types

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Cardiac, smooth, & skeleton

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What is the difference between grey matter and white matter?

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Grey matter consists of all the cell bodies
White matter consists of all the nerve fibers

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What are the supporting cells of the nervous system?

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Schwann, glial, myelin

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Condyle

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rounded articular area

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Crest

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ridge of bone

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Epicondyle

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eminence superior to a condyle

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Facet

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smooth flat area, where a bone articulates another bone

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Foramen

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passage through a bone

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Fossa

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hollow/depressed area

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Groove

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elongated depression

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Line

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linear elevation

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Malleolus

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rounded process

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Notch

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indentation at the edge of the bone

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Protuberance

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projection of bone

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Spine

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thorn like process

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Spinous Process

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spine like projection (process)

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Trochanter

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large blunt elevation

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Tuberosity

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large rounded elevation

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What is another name for the fibrous joint?
Synarthosis
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What is another name for the cartilaginous joint?
amphiathroses
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What is another name for a synovial joint?
diathrosis
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What type of joint allows for one bone to glide over the other
Gliding/Plane
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What type of joint behaves like a hinge on a door?
Hinge
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What type of joint allows for uniaxial rotation?
Pivot
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What type of joint allows for movement in all planes of motion?
Ball and Socket
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How many bones does the human vertebra have?
33
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How many cervical bones are there?
7
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How many thoracic bones are there?
12
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How many lumbar bones are there?
5
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How many bones make up the sacrum?
5
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How many bones make up the coccyx?
4
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What is lumbarization?
When S1 does not fuse properly to the sacrum, instead looking like a lumbar vertebrae
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What is sacralization?
When L12 fuses to the sacrum. appearing as if a lumbar vertebra is missing
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