Question | Answer |
Forms back of the skull and surrounds spinal cord | Occipital |
Large bones forming top of skull | Parietal |
Forms anterior portion of floor cranium,roof of nasal cavity,and part of nasal septum | ethmoid |
Portion of rear eye orbit and part of floor cranium | Sphenoid |
Smaller bones forming the sides of the skull | Temporal |
Cheek Bones | Zygoma |
one or two openings in the mandible | Mental Foramen |
opening where spinal cord enters cranium | Foramen magnum |
Opening where ear canal enters through temporal bone | External Auditory meatus |
Lower jaw,lower teeth | Mandible |
Forms the Forehead | Frontal |
the upper jaw and teeth | maxilla |
Forms posterior portion of hard palate | Palatine |
Vertebrocostal Ribs | 8,9,10 |
Vertebrosternal Ribs | 1-7 attached to sternum |
Vertebral Ribs | 11th and 12th |
First two Cervical vertebra | Atlas, Axis |
3 bones that make up Os Coxa | Ilium, Ischium, Pubis |
Appendicular Skeleton | Pectoral girdle,bones of the arms and hand, pelvic girdle, bones of the feet and legs |
Axial Skelton | Skull,ventebral column, thoracic cage |
Cervical Vertebrae | (7) Superior seven vertebra of column |
Axis | Second cervical vertebra. extending through atlas |
Atlas | top "ring shaped" cervical vertebrae |
Osteon | the functional unit of compact bone |
Lamella | (rings) little plates |
Canliculi | lash-like |
Distal Epiphysis | spongy bone |
Diaphysis | compact bone |
Femur | looks like a hammer |
Radius | circle on proximal end |
Ulna | has a U shape at proximal end |