Pelvic girdle

Question 1

Greater pelvis: superior pelvic girdle or inferior pelvic girdle?

Answer 1

Superior pelvic girdle

Question 2

Inferior pelvic girdle: greater pelvis or lesser pelvis?

Answer 2

Lesser pelvis

Question 3

Superior pelvic girdle: abdominal viscera or pelvic viscera?

Answer 3

Abdominal viscera

Question 4

What is the area between the thighs and the buttocks?

Answer 4

Perineum

Question 5

What are the three bones that form the pelvic girdle?

Answer 5

Right and left pelvic (innominate) bones and sacrum

Question 6

What are the three bones that fuse to form the coxal bones?

Answer 6

Ilium, ischium, pubis

Question 7

How many bones fuse to form the sacrum?

Answer 7

Five

Question 8

What is the cup-like depression in the lateral surface of the hip bone, which articulates with the head of the femur?

Answer 8

Acetabulum

Question 9

When does the ischium, ilium and pubis fuse?

Answer 9

After puberty

Question 10

The two innominate bones are joined anteriorly at which structure?

Answer 10

Pubis symphysis

Question 11

Which joints articulate the sacrum with the innominate bones?

Answer 11

Sacroiliac joints

Question 12

Which part of the innominate bone is superior and fan-shaped?

Answer 12

Ilium

Question 13

What part of the ilium represents the spread of the fan?

Answer 13

Ala

Question 14

What part of the ilium represents the handle of the fan?

Answer 14

Body

Question 15

Which part of the ilium has a curve that follows the contour of the ala between the ASIS and the PSIS?

Answer 15

Iliac crest

Question 16

Which parts of the innominate bones form the obsturator foramen?

Answer 16

Ischium and pubis

Question 17

Ischial spine: anterior or posterior?

Answer 17

Posterior

Question 18

What is the concavity between the ischial spine and the ischial tuberosity?

Answer 18

Lesser sciatic notch

Question 19

Which concavity is above the ischial spine?

Answer 19

Greater sciatic notch

Question 20

Greater pelvis: true pelvis or false pelvis?

Answer 20

False

Question 21

Which plane divides the pelvis into greater and lesser?

Answer 21

Pelvic inlet

Question 22

The following are true about the innominate bone except:

a. It is composed of the ilium, ischium and coccyx
b. Highest bone is the ilium
c. Anterior joint is the pubic symphysis
d. Posterior joint is the sacroiliac synchondroses

Answer 22

A

Question 23

The shortest distance is the pelvic cavity is between the:

a. Linea terminalis
b. Ischial tuberosity
c. Ischial spines
d. Sacral promontory and symphysis pubis

Answer 23

*

Question 24

The linea terminalis consists of which ridges?

Answer 24

Arcuate line, pecten pubis, pubic crest

Question 25

What forms the pubic arch?

Answer 25

Right and left ischiopubic rami

Question 26

The ischiopubic rami meet at which point?

Answer 26

Pubic symphysis

Question 27

The inferior borders of the of the pubic symphysis define which angle?

Answer 27

Subpubic angle