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Two Types of Skeleton

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Axial and appendicular

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Axial

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Supports the upright position and protects internal organs (80 bones) skull, vertebrate, rib cage, and sternum

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Appendicular

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Aid in the movement of the body (126 bones) pectoral girdle, arms, forearms, hands, pelvis, legs, feet, and ankles

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Total Bones

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206 bones

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Skeletal System Functions

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Support and protection, body movement, produces blood cells, storage of minerals and fats

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Epiphysis

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Bone ends

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Diaphysis

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Middle of bone

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Articular Cartilage

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End padding tissue on bone

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Periosteum

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Bone membrane

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Medullary Cavity

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Hollow chamber filled with bone marrow

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Compact Bone Tissue

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Wall of the diaphysis

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Spongy Bone Tissue

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Cancellous bone in epiphysis

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Long Bones

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Cylinder shaped, longer than its wide; leverage; tibia, fibula

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Short Bones

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Cube shaped, approximately equal in dimensions; stability, support, motion; carpals, tarsals

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Flat Bones

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Thin, curved; muscle attachments and organ protectors; sternum, ribs

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Irregular Bones

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Complex shaped; protect organs; vertebrae, facial bones

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Sesamoid Bones

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Small, round; protect tendons; patellae

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Red Bone Marrow

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White and blood cells

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Yellow Bone Marrow

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Fat

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Pivot

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Uniaxial; allows rotational movement; proximal radioulnar joint

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Hinge

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Uniaxial; allows flexion/extension movements; knee

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Condyloid

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Biaxial; allows flexion/extension, abduction/adduction, circumduction; joint of fingers

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Saddle

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Biaxial; allows flexion/extension, abduction/adduction, circumduction; sternoclavicular joint

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Plane

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Multiaxial; allows inversion/eversion; intertarsal joints of food

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Ball-and-socket
Multiaxial; allows medial/lateral rotation movements; shoulder/hip joints
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Flexion/Extension
Flexing and extending your arm
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Adduction/Abduction/Circumduction
Add: arms close Ab: arms away C: move in circles
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Rotation
Medial/Lateral; head to left and middle
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Supination/Pronation
P: hand down S: hand up
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Dorsiflexion/Plantar Flexion
Ankle up, ankle down
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Inversion/Eversion
Ankle in, ankle out
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Protraction/Retraction
Head to front, head to back
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Depression/Elevation
Low shoulder, high shoulders
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Opposition/Reposition
Index and thumb together, normal hand
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Bones in Cranium
22 bones
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Movable Bone in Skull
The mandible (lower jaw)
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Five Vertebral Regions
Cervical, thoracic, lumbar, sacrum, and coccyx
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Vertebrae in Cervical
7 vertebrae in cervical (neck)
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Vertebrae in Thoracic
12 thoracic vertebrae (middle of spine)
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Vertebrae in Lumbar
5 lumbar vertebrae (lower back)
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Scoliosis
Curve in spine (Curve sideways)
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Kyphosis
Humpback (Curve outward)
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Lordosis
Swayback (Curve inward)
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Thoracic Cage
Protects heart and lungs
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Costal Cartilage
Rib bone connects to sternum (middle chest bone)
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Three Types of Ribs
True ribs (7) False ribs (3) Floating ribs (2)
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Pectoral Girdle
The clavicle and scapula
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Humerus
Top of the arm (shoulder to elbow)
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Radius
Outer bone of the forearm
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Ulna
Inner bone of the forearm
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Carpals
Wrist
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Metacarpals
Palm bones (between wrist and fingers)
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Phalanges
Fingers
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Femur
Thigh bone (between knee and pelvis)
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Tibia
Big bone in shin
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Fibula
Thin bone in shin
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Tarsals
Ankle
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Metatarsals
Bones between toes and ankles
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Open (simple)
There is an open wound or break in the skin near the site of the broken bone
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Closed (compounded)
If the injury doesn't break open the skin
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Transverse
The bone perpendicular to the axis of the bone
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Oblique
The break has a curved or sloped pattern
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Spiral
Long bones that result from a rotational force applied to the bone
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Comminuted
Break of the bone into more than two fragments
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Impacted
When the broken ends of the bone are jammed together by the force of the injury
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Greenstick
When a bone bends and cracks

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