What is the axial skeleton? - ANSWER - skull
- torso
What is the appendicular skeleton? - ANSWER arms and legs
What is superior? what is an example? - ANSWER towards the head (your skull is superior to your sternu
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What is the axial skeleton? - ANSWER - skull
- torso
What is the appendicular skeleton? - ANSWER arms and legs
What is superior? what is an example? - ANSWER towards the head (your skull is superior to your sternum)
what is inferior? what is an example? - ANSWER towards the feet (your sternum is inferior to your skull)
What is anterior? - ANSWER front of the body
What is posterior? - ANSWER back of body
What is lateral? an example? - ANSWER Away from the midline of the body (you have a lateral side to your knee that is away from the body)
what is medial? an example? - ANSWER Toward the midline of the body (you have a medial side of your knee that is towards the midline of the body)
What is proximal? - ANSWER Closer to the point of attachment
What is distal? - ANSWER distant from the point of attachment
What is supine? - ANSWER lying on the back
what is prone? - ANSWER lying face down
what are the planes of the body? - ANSWER sagittal, frontal, transverse
what is transverse? - ANSWER top and bottom
what is frontal? - ANSWER divides the body into front and back
What is Sagittal - ANSWER divides the body into left and right
what are the functions of the skeletal system? hint: stop procrastinating begin motivating my self - ANSWER support
protect
blood cell reproduction
movement
mineral storage
storage of energy
what are the types of bones?
hint: FLISS - ANSWER - flat
- long
- irregular
- short
- sesamoid
what is a flat bone? - ANSWER thin, flattened, and usually curved
example of a flat bone? - ANSWER sternum
ribs
scapula
what is a long bone? - ANSWER relatively long and slender
example of a long bone? - ANSWER humerus
ulna
fibula and tibia
what is an irregular bone? - ANSWER complex shapes
example of an irregular bone? - ANSWER vertebrae
bones of the pelvis
what is a short bone? - ANSWER cube shaped
example of a short bone? - ANSWER carpals and tarsals
what is a sesamoid? - ANSWER small, round and flat
example of sesamoids bone - ANSWER the patella
what are the three major joint types? - ANSWER fibrous, cartilaginous, synovial
what are fibrous joints? - ANSWER immovable and has no joint cavity
example of fibrous joint? - ANSWER sutures between the skull
What are cartilaginous joints? - ANSWER bones connected by cartilage
- partially moveable
example of cartilaginous joint? - ANSWER vertebrae
what are synovial joints? - ANSWER freely movable joints
example of synovial joints? - ANSWER the shoulder and hip joint
what helps connects joints? - ANSWER ligaments, tendons and articular cartilage
What are ligaments? - ANSWER Connect bone to bone
what are tendons? - ANSWER Connect muscle to bone
What is articular cartilage? - ANSWER provides smooth, lubricated surface for articulating bones
what are the types of synovial joints?
hint: pivot, pass, cut, shoot, ball, hopp - ANSWER pivot, plane, condyloid, saddle, ball and socket, hinge
What is a pivot joint?
example? - ANSWER allows for rotation of one bone around another
- top of the neck
What is a plane joint?
example? - ANSWER allows for gliding movement
- joints between carpals and tarsals
what is a condyloid joint?
example; - ANSWER Circular motion flexion and extension
- between the radius and carpals bones of the wrist
what is a saddle joint?
example? - ANSWER allows for flexion, extension, adduction, abduction and circumduction
- thumb joint
What is a ball and socket joint?
example? - ANSWER allows for rotational movement
- shoulder and hip joints
What is a hinge joint?
- example - ANSWER allows flexion and extension
- elbow and knee joints
what is flexion? - ANSWER decreasing the angle of a joint
what is extension? - ANSWER Increasing the angle of a joint
What is abduction? - ANSWER Movement away from the midline of the body
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