verts exam 2 Word Scramble
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| Question | Answer |
| cranial kinesis | movement within the skull |
| cranial akinesis | no movement within the skull |
| metakinesis | hinge passes across the back of the skill permitting rotation between the neurocranium and outer dermatocranium |
| prokinesis | joint passes through the dermatocranium behind eye |
| monokinetic | one joint |
| dikinetic | two joints |
| streptostyly | quadrate is free to undergo some degree of independent rotation about its dorsal connection within the braincase |
| paleostyly | none of the arches are attached directly to the skull |
| euautostylic | mandibular arch is suspended from the skull by itself without help from the hyoid arch |
| amphistylic | jaws attach to braincase through two primary articulations, anteriorly by a ligament connecting hte palatoquadrate to the skull and posteriorly by the hyomandibula |
| hyostylic | mandibular arch is attached to the braincase primarly through the hyomandibula |
| metautostylic | jaws attached to braincase directly through the quadrate |
| craniostylic | entire upperjaw is incorporated into braincase, lower jaw is suspended from the dermal squamosal bone in the braincase |
| rhachitomous (aspidospondyly) | all elements separated |
| lepospondyl (holospondyl) | all elements fused |
| acoelous | flat at both ends; recieve and distribute forces within vertebral column |
| amphicoelous | concave around notochord; allow limited motion in most directions |
| procoelous | one end flat, other end concave; extensive motion in most directions without stretching nervechord |
| opisthocoelous |
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