Skeletal system

Question 1

Coxae

Answer 1

Hip

Question 1

Os

Answer 1

Bone

Question 2

Inter

Answer 2

Between

Question 3

What are the functions of a skeleton

Answer 3

Protects soft tissues, bears weight and acts as a lever to facilitate movement

Question 4

What is the axial skeleton

Answer 4

Brain, spine chord, ribs

Question 5

What is the appendicular skeleton

Answer 5

everything else (including hips)

Question 6

What is a ligament

Answer 6

Join bones together

Question 7

What is a tendon

Answer 7

Joins skeletal muscle to bone

Question 8

What are bone features

Answer 8

Partsof a bone

Question 9

What is an articulating surface

Answer 9

Ligament surface

Question 10

What is a malleolus

Answer 10

Anklebone

Question 11

What are the boundaries of the thoracic cavity

Answer 11

ribs

Question 12

what is the scapula

Answer 12

shoulder bone

Question 13

what is the clavicle

Answer 13

collarbone

Question 14

What is the os coxae and what bones are fused together to form it

Answer 14

hip bones - lilium, ischium and pubus fused together to form the hip bone

Question 15

What is the humerous

Answer 15

The arm bone

Question 16

what is the radius

Answer 16

froearm bone

Question 17

What is the ulna

Answer 17

forearm bone

Question 18

What are the carpals

Answer 18

palm bones

Question 19

What are metacarples

Answer 19

lower finger bones

Question 20

What are the phalanges

Answer 20

upper finger bones

Question 21

What is the femur

Answer 21

thighbone

Question 22

What is the patella

Answer 22

the weird knee bone

Question 23

what is the fibula and tibia

Answer 23

lower leg bones

Question 24

What are the metatarsals

Answer 24

Lower toe bones

Question 25

What are the phalanges

Answer 25

Upper toe bones

Question 26

What are the factors affecting stability

Answer 26

Mobility, size, muscle points of attachment and ligament attachment (more ligament = more stability)

Question 27

What is a multiaxial diarthrotic joint

Answer 27

can move in multiple planes and is freely movable

Question 28

Whereis the sacroilliac joint

Answer 28

between the sacrum and illium

Question 29

What is the amphiarthrotic joint

Answer 29

limited movement

Question 30

What is the acetabulum

Answer 30

junction between three bones

Question 31

What is common with all vertebrates

Answer 31

Has a backbone

Question 32

Why is the spinal chord so protected

Answer 32

because the spinal chord is part of the CNS

Question 33

What is a face that are the difference between superior and inferior vertebrae

Answer 33

Small C1 - C6 have transverse axis to protect the brain blood supply

Question 34

What are the thoracis vertebra

Answer 34

Long spinous process

Question 35

What is a spinal process

Answer 35

pointy thing on the vertebra

Question 36

What is the lumbar vertebra

Answer 36

short process, big and heavy

Question 37

What are sacral bones

Answer 37

fused vertebra

Question 38

What are the structure of bones

Answer 38

Compact outside vs spiny inside

Question 39

What happens when bone stops growing

Answer 39

Plate turns into a line

Question 40

What are compact bones made of

Answer 40

Central canal with centrixes around it

Question 41

Why do compact bones have a multitude of shapes

Answer 41

For strength meaning there are no lines of stress

Question 42

What is a lacuna

Answer 42

space with an osteocyte in it (bone cell)

Question 43

What is the spongy bone made of

Answer 43

Matrix where marrow resides

Question 44

What are osteoblasts

Answer 44

Builds bones

Question 45

What are osteocytes

Answer 45

Function as a bone cell

Question 46

What are osteoclasts

Answer 46

Destroy bones via bone resportion

Question 47

What is a tubercle

Answer 47

Bone feature that attaches tendons/muscles