Stack #18721
Help!
|
|
||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| acetabulum | Rounded depression, or socket, in the pelvis, which joins the femur, forming the hip joint
🗑
|
||||
| acromion | Outward extension of the shoulder bone forming the point of the shoulder. It overrides the shoulder joint and articulates with clavicle
🗑
|
||||
| articular cartilage | Thin layer of cartilage occurring at the ends of long bones and covering any part of any bone that comes together with another bone to form a joint
🗑
|
||||
| bone | Dense, hard connective tissue composing the skeleton. Examples are long bones (femur), short bones (carpals), flat bones (scapula) and sesamoid bones (patella)
🗑
|
||||
| calcium | One of the mineral constituents of bone. Calcium phosphate is the major calcium salt in bones
🗑
|
||||
| cancellous bone | Spongy, porous, trabecular bone
🗑
|
||||
| cartilaginous tissue | Flexible, rubbery connective tissue. Found in immature skeleton at the epiphyseal growth plate and on joint surfaces
🗑
|
||||
| collagen | Dense connective tissue strands found in bone
🗑
|
||||
| compact bone | hard dense bone tissue
🗑
|
||||
| condyle | knuckle-like process at the end of the bone near the joint
🗑
|
||||
| cranial bones | Skull bones: ethmoid, frontal, occipital, parietal, sphenoid, and temporal
🗑
|
||||
| diaphysis | Shaft, or midportion, of a long bone
🗑
|
||||
| disk (disc) | Flat, round, plate-like structure. An intervertebral disk is a fibrocartilaginous substance between two vertebrae
🗑
|
||||
| epiphyseal plate | Cartilaginous area at the ends of long bones where lengthwise growth takes place in the immature skeleton
🗑
|
||||
| epiphysis | Each end of a long bone; the area beyond the epiphyseal plate
🗑
|
||||
| facial bones | Bones of the face: lacrimal, mandible, maxillae, nasal, vomer and zygomatic
🗑
|
||||
| fissure | Narrow, slit-like opening in or between bones
🗑
|
||||
| fontanelle | Soft spot (incomplete bone formation) between the skull bones of an infant
🗑
|
||||
| foramen | Opening or passage in bones where blood bessels, nerves, or both enter and leave.
🗑
|
||||
| fossa | Shallow cavity in a bone
🗑
|
||||
| haversian canals | Minute spaces filled with blood vessels; found in compact bone
🗑
|
||||
| malleolus | Round process on both sides of the ankle joint. The lateral malleolus is part of the fibula, and the medial malleolus is part of the tibia
🗑
|
||||
| manubrium | Upper portion of the sternum; articulates with the medial aspect of the clavicle
🗑
|
||||
| mastoid process | Round projection on the temporal bone behind the ear
🗑
|
||||
| medullary cavity | Central, hollowed-out area in the shaft of the bone
🗑
|
||||
| metaphysis | The flared portion of the long bone, lying between the diaphysis (shaft) and the
🗑
|
||||
| olecranon | Large process on the proximal end of the ulna; the point of the flexed elbow
🗑
|
||||
| osseous | Bone tissue
🗑
|
||||
| ossification | Process of bone formation
🗑
|
||||
| osteoblast | Bone cell that helps form bone tissue
🗑
|
||||
| osteoclast | Bone cell that absorbs and removes unwanted bone tissue
🗑
|
||||
| periosteum | Membrane surrounding bones, rich in blood vessels and nerve tissue
🗑
|
Review the information in the table. When you are ready to quiz yourself you can hide individual columns or the entire table. Then you can click on the empty cells to reveal the answer. Try to recall what will be displayed before clicking the empty cell.
To hide a column, click on the column name.
To hide the entire table, click on the "Hide All" button.
You may also shuffle the rows of the table by clicking on the "Shuffle" button.
Or sort by any of the columns using the down arrow next to any column heading.
If you know all the data on any row, you can temporarily remove it by tapping the trash can to the right of the row.
To hide a column, click on the column name.
To hide the entire table, click on the "Hide All" button.
You may also shuffle the rows of the table by clicking on the "Shuffle" button.
Or sort by any of the columns using the down arrow next to any column heading.
If you know all the data on any row, you can temporarily remove it by tapping the trash can to the right of the row.
Embed Code - If you would like this activity on your web page, copy the script below and paste it into your web page.
Normal Size Small Size show me how
Normal Size Small Size show me how
Created by:
marykay135