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Skeletal System AP1

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The skull, the vertebral column and thoracic cage, pectoral girdle and upper limbs, and pelvic girdle and lower limbs   skeletal system  
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Function: support, movement, mineral storage, blood cell formation   skeletal system  
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The skeletal system is divided into what 2 sections?   Axial and appendicular skeleton  
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Consists of skull, vertebrae, sternum, ribs, sacrum, and hyoid   axial skeleton  
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Consists of pectoral girdle, upper limbs, pelvic girdle, and lower limbs   appendicular skeleton  
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80 bones make up this skeletal section   axial skeleton  
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126 bones make up this skeletal section   appendicular skeleton  
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Total number of bone in adult human body   206  
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2 types of bones   compact and spongy  
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Smooth and homogenous   compact  
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A lot of open space & trabeculae which are bars of bones   spongy bone  
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Have huge blood supply and are mostly made up of compact bone   long bone  
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Usually a long shaft with two heads   long bone  
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Examples: humerus, femor, phalanges   long bone  
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Examples: wrists and ankles   short bones  
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Mostly spongy bone   short bone  
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Compact bone that sandwiches spongy bone (cube shaped)   flat bone  
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Examples: skull, scapula, ribs   flat bones  
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Examples: some facial bones (sphenoid), vertebrae   irregular  
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4 types of bone   Short, long, irregular, and flat  
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2 special types of bones   sesamoid and wormian/sutural bones  
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Special types of short bone formed at tendons   sesamoid  
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Tiny bones between cranium bones   wormian/sutural  
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Vary in terms of number; location is different for each individual   special types of bone  
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Depressions and openings   fissure, fontanels, foramen, fossa, meatus, sinus  
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Processes that form joints   condyle, facet, head  
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Attachment processes   crest, epicondyle, linea, process, trochanter, tubercle, tuberosity  
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