Test 2 Flashcards
Functions of cartilage
Supporting soft tissues
Provide gliding surfaces at articulations
Model for bone formation
Functions of bone
Support
Protection
Movement
Hemopoiesis
Storage
Gross anatomy of long bone
Diaphysis -shaft
Epiphysis- ends
Metaphysis l- growth plate and between diaphysis and epiphysis
Medullary cavity- bone marrow
You have to use it or you ..
Lose it
Stress shapes bone
Why is _ there?
Because of muscle pulling
Too little calcium
No synapsis your heart stops beating
To much calcuim
Calcification
Hyaline cartilage from the fetal skeleton turns into bone how
By getting a blood supply
Nasal conchea
Inferior
Medial
Superior
Increase surface areas and help warm and humidify air
Coronal suture
Junction between frontal and parietal bones
Lambdoid suture
Junction between occipital and parietal bones
Saggital suture
Between parietal bones
Squamous suture
Junction between temporal and parietal bones
The paransasal sinuses
Air filled spaces within in the skull bones
Mucous lining helps humidify
Lighten the skull
Sound production when speaking
Functions of vertebral column
Provide vertical support for body
Support weight of head
Help maintain up right position of body
Transfers the wieght off of upper body
Protects spinal cord
Provides passageway to spinal nerves
Paranasal sinuses
Ethmoidal
Sphenoidal
Maxilla
Frontal
Regions
7 cervical vertebrae
12 thoracic vertebrae
5 lumbar vertebrae
What passes through foramen magnum
Spinal cord
Vertebral arteries
Cranial nerve 11
What passes through inferior orbital fissure
Cranial nerves 3,4,5,6
Ethmoid cranial nerve
1
What passes through jugular foramen
Jugular vein
Cervical nerves 9,10,11
Cervical spine
Anterior
Thoracic spine curves
Posterior