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Anatomy Exam 3 Terms

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It is possible to determine if a child's long bone is growing by examining a radiograph of the   epiphyseal plate  
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What is an example of an irregular bone?   Bones of the backbone  
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What is not a function of bones?   contraction  
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Osteoblasts are   bone-forming cells  
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Osteocytes are   mature bone cells  
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Osteoclasts are   bone cells that resorb bone tissue  
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Compact bone has   tightly packed tissue that is sold, strong, and resistant to bending  
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Spongy bone has   cancellous bone that reduces the weight of bone  
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(T or F)Normal bone growth requires adequate amounts of calcium, phosphate, and vitamin E   False  
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Does calcitonin make blood calcium levels increase or decrease?   decrease  
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What is not found in spongy bone?   Osteons  
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What kind of cartilage is articular cartilage?   Hyaline cartilage  
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The white material that reduces friction at the ends of bones is called   articular cartilage  
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Osteoclast activity is increased by   parathyroid hormone  
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What are some functions of the skeletal system?   Protection of organs, storage of inorganic salts, interaction with muscles for movement, responsible for blood cell production  
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The axial skeleton includes   skull, hyoid bone, thoracic cage, and vertebral column  
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Exercise_____ and ______ bones   thickens, strengthens  
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The presence of an epiphyseal plate indicates that   the bone is lengthening  
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A bone includes   living material and nonliving material  
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Compact bone has ____, whereas spongy bone has ____.   tightly packed tissue that is solid, strong, and resistant to bending; cancellous bone that reduces the weight of bone  
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A synovial membrane   secretes synovial fluid  
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What are examples of synovial joints   ball-and-socket, hinge, saddle, pivot, gliding, condyloid  
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Ball-and-socket   hip, shoulder-rotational movement  
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Hinge   elbow or knee-allows movement in one plane  
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saddle   thumb-rotate a little  
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pivot   shake head, pivot  
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gliding   carpal, tarsal, intervertebral- sliding past each other; limited movement  
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condyloid   wrist, fingers- fingers to palm  
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Articular cartilage receives oxygen and nutrients from   surrounding synovial fluid  
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A joint capsule is reinforced by   ligaments binding articular ends of bones together  
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A synchondrosis   allows bone growth  
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A syndesmosis is   a fibrous joint in which an interosseous ligament binds bones  
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Fibrocartilage discs that divide the joint into two compartments is called   menisci  
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Cartilagenous joints are connected by   hyaline cartilage or fibrocartilage  
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What are some types of fibrous joints?   sydesmosis, sutures, gomphosis  
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The joint that separates two vertebrae is a   symphysis that is amphiarthrotic  
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Lifting the arm horizontally to form a right angle with the side of the body or moving a part away from the midline   abduction  
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What are some functions of joints?   Often contain cartilage, bind bones, enable body parts to move, allow bones to grow  
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A sprain involves   overstretched or torn ligaments and tendons in a joint  
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Joints are also called   articulations  
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A gomphosis is a ____ joint.   fibrous  
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The meniscus is in the   knee  
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Bones of a synovial joint are held together by   a joint capsule.  
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What is true about skeletal muscle?   Every muscle fiber receives a branch of an axon from the nerve  
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The muscle primarily responsible for an action is the   prime mover  
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Threshold stimulus is the   minimal amount of energy required to contract a muscle fiber  
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A muscle that assists a prime mover is a   synergist  
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The outermost layer of connective tissue surrounding a skeletal muscle is the   epimysium  
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Myofibrils are composed primarily of   actin and myosin  
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A sarcomere extends from   one Z disk to an adjacent Z disk  
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The enzyme acetylecholinesterase causes acetycholine to   decompose  
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Cordlike and connects muscles to bones   tendon  
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a broad, fibrous sheet of connective tissue that connects muscles to muscles   aponeurosis  
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The amount of oxygen liver cells require to react with lactic acid to produce glucose or glycogen   oxygen debt  
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The striated appearance of skeletal muscle results from the   sarcomere organization  
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A motor unit is   a motor neuron and the muscle fibers connected to it.  
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Creatine phosphate   supplies energy for the sythesis of ATP  
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Transverse tubules and sarcoplasmic reticulum are well developed in   skeletal muscle fibers  
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Muscle fibers are basically a collection of   sarcomeres  
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(T or F) ATPase is located in myosin cross-bridges   True  
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What are some functions of muscles?   distributions of heat, the heartbeat, muscle tone, moving bones  
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What surrounds a fasciculus?   perimysium  
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What are channels that open or close in response to changes in the electrical charge or voltage across the plasma membrane?   voltage-gated ion channels  
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In muscle contraction, ATP supplies energy for   myofilament movement  
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