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Skeletal System
Skeleton and skeletal tissues
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What bones make up the axial skeleton? | Skull, spine and ribs |
| What bones form the cranium? | frontal, parietal (x2), temporal (X2), occipital, sphenoid, and ethmoid |
| Which cranial bone contains the middle and inner ear structures? | Temporal Bone |
| What is the name of the hole where the spinal cord enters the skull and where is it located? | Foramen magnum, hole in the occipital bone |
| What is the name of the opening for the optic nerve and where is it located? | Occipital foramen, opening in the sphenoid bone |
| What bones form the inferior and posterior portion of the nasal septum ? | Vomer |
| What bone forms the upper jaw as well as parts of the orbit, mouth, and nose? | Maxilla |
| What bone forms the posterior of the hard palate? | Palatine |
| What bone forms the lower jaw and is the strongest facial bone? | Mandible |
| What are sutures and what are their names? | Immovable joints between the bones of the skull, squamous, coronal lambdoid, and sagittal. |
| What are fontanels? | "soft spots" with incomplete ossification present in newborns, |
| What are the different types of vertebrae and how many are there? | 7 Cervical Vertebrae, 12 thoracic vertebrae, 5 lumbar vertebrae |
| What is the hyoid bone? | U-shaped bone near the larynx that supports the tongue. |
| What are the three types or ribs? | True ribs, fasle ribs, floating ribs, |
| What is the purpose of the costal cartilage? | attaches ribs except floating ribs to the sternum |
| Which bone do you compress during CPR? | sternum |
| What bones form the shoulder girdle? | clavicle and scapula |
| What bone articulates proximally with the scapula and distally with the radius and ulna? | humerus |
| what bone articulates proximally with the humerus and radius but does not articulate with any carpal bones? | ulna |
| What bones form the hand and how many of them are there? | 8 carpal bones, 5 metacarpal bones, |
| What bones do the phalanges articulate with? | metacarpal bones |
| What bones form the pelvic girdle? | coxal bone (x2) and the sacrum |
| What three bones make up the coxal bone? | ischium, ilium, pubis |
| what is the name of the joint that connects the anterior portions of the coxal bones? | pubic symphysis |
| What is the longest and heaviest bone in the body? | femur |
| What happens to the patellar outline when the knee flexes? | It sinks into the intercondylar notch of the femur |
| What bone articulates with the lateral condyle of the tibia at its proximal end? | Fibula |
| What bone articulates with the femur at its proximal end to form the knee joint | tibia |
| What is the largest sesamoid bone in the body? | patella |
| What are the four arches formed by the bones of the foot? | longitudinal arch, medial longitudinal arch, lateral longitudinal arch, transverse arch |
| What bones form the medial longitudinal arch? | calcaneus, talus, navicular and cuneiforms |
| How are the bones of the foot held in an arched position? | strong ligaments and leg muscle tendons |
| If a pelvis is deep, funnel shaped, and has a narrow subpubic angle, what does that indicate? | It belongs to a male |
| If a pelvis has a subpubic angle greater than 90 degrees what does that indicate? | It belongs to a female |
| What does it mean if a person has a compound fracture? | The bone protrudes through the skin and surrounding tissue |
| What kind of fracture results in one bone being driven into another bone's marrow cavity? | impacted fracture |
| What kind of fracture causes a bone to bend and only break on one side? | Greenstick fracture. |
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