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Sheet of fibrous connective tissue that connect or articulate bones across joints

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Ligaments

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What are the two divisions of the skeleton

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Axial and Appendicular

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How many bones are there in axial skeleton

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80

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How many bones are there in appendicular skeleton?

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126

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What consists the appendicular skeleton

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Upper and lower, shoulder girdle, pelvic girdle

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What are the cranial bones?

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Frontal, parietal (2) , temporal (2) , occipital , sphenoid, ethmoid

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Immovable joints

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Sutures

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Form the sides and the roof of the cranium

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Parietal bones

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9
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Forms the lower side of the cranium

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Temporal

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10
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Canal that leads to the middle ear

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External auditory meatus

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Rounded projection posterior and inferior to the external auditory meatus

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Mastoid process

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A depression which articulates with the mandible

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Mandibular fossa

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13
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Opening where the brain connects to the spinal cord

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Foramen magnum

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14
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Round prominence of the bone

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Condyle

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A round process which articulates with the first cervical vertebra or the atlas

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Occipital condyle

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Keystone of the cranium

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Sphenoid bone

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17
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Depression which encloses pituitary gland

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Sella turcica

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18
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Drains into the nasal cavity

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Sphenoidal sinuses

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19
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Anterior to sphenoid bone

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Ethmoid bone

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20
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A ridge on the superior portion of the ethmoid bone; attaches to the meninges

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Crystal galli

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21
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Air spaces in the ethmoid bone

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Ethmoid sinuses

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Scroll like projections that warm, moisten & filter inhaled air

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Superior and middle nasal conchae

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23
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Contains sockets for the roots of the upper teeth

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Maxillae

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24
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Forms the hard palate

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Maxillae

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Posterior to the hard palate
Palatine bones
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Largest strongest and only movable facial bone
Mandible
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Plow shaped bone
Vomer
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Articulates with ethmoid bone
Vomer
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Join with mandibular fossa and form the temporomandibular joint
Condyloid process
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Articulates with maxilla, frontal, temporal
Zygomatic bone
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Smallest and thinnest facial bone
Lacrimal
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Vomer forms what lower part?
Nasal septum
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Suture of the parietal and occipital bone
Lambdoid suture
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Suture between parietal and temporal
Squamous
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Area of fibrous connective between bones of the skull
Fontanels
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How many years do fontanel closes
After 2 years
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What is found in the sphenoid, frontal, ethmoid, maxillary bones?
Paranasal sinuses
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Produces mucus, lighten the skull, echo chambers for speech
Sinuses
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Smallest bone
Stapes or stirrup
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What are the three pairs of tiny bones
Malleus, incus, stapes
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U shaped bone located in the neck between mandible and the larynx
Hyoid bone
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How many bones are there in the vertebral column
26
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Protects the spinal cord
Vertebral column
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How many bones are there in cervical vertebrae
7
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Connects with occipital condyles
Atlas
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C2?
Axis
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Forms a privet joint with atlas which permits the head to move side to side
Dens or odontological process
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C7? It is spinous process that can be seen and felt through the skin
Vertebra prominens
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Have facets articulating with ribs
Thoracic vertebrae
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How many bones are there in the thoracic vertebrae
12
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Largest and strongest bones of the spine
Lumbar vertebrae
52
How many bones are fused in the sacrum
5
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Forms posterior wall of the pelvis
Sacrum
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Openings in the sacrum where nerves and blood vessels pass through
Sacral foramina
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A landmark for measuring the pelvis prior to childbirth
Sacral promontory
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Where sacrum articulates with the hip bones
Sacroiliac joints
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A site where anesthesia is injected for an epidural block
Sacral hiatus
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Cervical: concave or convex?
Concave
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Thoracic: concave or convex?
Convex
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Sacral: concave or convex
Convex
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Lumbar: concave or convex
Concave
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Exaggeration of the thoracic curve: humpback appearance
Kyphosis
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Sway back: exaggeration of the lumbar curve
Lordosis
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Lateral curvature which spine leans one side more than the other
Scoliosis
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A landmark used to locate deltoid injection site
Acromion process
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It connects humerus to form a ball and socket joint
Glenoid fossa
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How many bones are there in the upper limb
30
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Rough, v-shaped area at middle of shaft; point of attachment for deltoid muscle
Deltoid tuberosity
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A rounded knob which articulates with the head of radius
Capitulum
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A surface on distal and medial which articulates with ulna
Trochlea
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Proximal end which forms prominence of the elbow
Olecranon process
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prominent projection in the femur; a landmark used to locate intramuscular injection sites
Greater trochanter
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Largest foramen in the skeleton
Obturator foramen
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Large hole between pubis and ischium
Obturator foramen

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