Musculoskeletal System Flashcards
(23 cards)
Anatomy of the muscoskeletal system
Ligaments, joints, bone marrow, bones, skeleton
The musculoskeletal system includes…
Bones, cartilage, ligaments, tendons and connective tissue
Blood cell production is in the
Bone marrow
Two bones meet at a … and is held together by …
Joint, ligaments
Name for bones
Osseous tissue
The bone formation process
Ossification
Immature bone cells/ mature bone cells
Osteoblasts/osteocytes
Bone categories
Long bones, short bones, irregular bones, flat bones
Ex long bone, short bone, flat bone and irregular bone
Long bone: femur (thigh bone) humerus (arm bone)
Short bone: tarsals (between ankle and heel) carpals (wrist bones)
Flat bone: sternum (breastbone) scapulae (shoulder blade) pelvis (lower abdomen)
Irregular bone: vertebrae (spinal column)
Longbones have a … called … that widens at each end called …
Central shaft/ diaphysis/ epiphysis
Epiphysis is covered by … called … to prevent …
Cartilage/ articular cartilage/ bone rubbing on bone
Remaining surface is covered by … called … that contains …
Connective tissue/ periosteum/ blood vessels, lymphatic vessels, nerves
Exterior surface is called …. Inside … is found. The spaces between the … contain … which …
Cortical- compact bone/ spongy- cancellous bone/ red bone marrow/ manufactures blood cells
Centre of diaphysis contain an open canal called … which contain …
Medullary cavity/ red bone marrow
As we age the … gradually converts to … in the … which consists of mostly …
Red bone marrow/ yellow bone marrow/ medullary cavity/ fat cells
The skeleton is divided into
The axial skeleton and appendicular skeleton
The axial skeleton includes
Bones of the head, neck, spine and trunk
He skull consists of two parts
The facial bones and cranial bones
The facial bones consists of
Mandible bone, maxilla bone, zygomatic bones, vomer bone, palatine bone and nasal bones
The cranium bones include
Frontal bone, parietal bones, occipital bone, temporal bones, sphenoid bone, ethmoid bone, lacrimal bones
The Ribcage, sternum and vertebral column is divided into
Cervical vertebra, thoracic vertebrae, lumbar vertebra, sacrum and coccyx
Between each vertebrae are
Intervertebral discs composed of fibrocartilage
There are … ribs attached at the … in the back , the first … are attached to the … in front, the lowest .. are called … and are only attached to the …
12/ vertebrae/ 10/ sternum/ floating ribs/ vertebral column
