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- sutures are:
- places where bones are fused together
- axial skeleton:
- skull, vertebral column, ribs, sternum
- cleft palate:
- common development abnormality, crack between maxillary and palatine
- External auditory meatus function
- Canal to inner ear
- occipital condyles function
- Joins with the a tlas vertebrae of the spine
- foramen magnum:
- large hole that spinal cord passes into
- femur easily broken due to:
- osteoperosis
- A sesamoia bone: (and example)
- doesn't connect with other bone (patella)
- bump on the medial surface of ankle:
- medial malleolus
- os coxae structure:
- fusion of 3 bones
- os coxae that is hip externally:
- illium
- acetabulum function:
- fits the head of the femur
- pubic symphysis function:
- gradually allow pubes to grow apart
- female pelvis difference:
- smaller, greater angle between pubes
- appendicular skeleton:
- upper and lower extermeties, pelvic bones, shoulder girdle, limbs
- olecranon fossa function:
- extend arm
- skeletal difference in thumb:
- only two phalanges
- how many ribs in both sexes:
- 12 pairs
- costal cartilage:
- attatches ribs to the sternum with flexibility, allows breathing
- sternum's clinical importance:
- you can take blood for testing out of its cavity
- how many vertebrae:
- 29
- what types of vertebrae:
- 7 cervical, 12 thoracis, 5 lumbar, sacrum, coccyx
- spina bifida
- failure of laminae to fuse, creates tumor
- odontoid process function:
- permits free rotation of neck
- vertebral foramen is where:
- spinal cord passes through
- most common back problems:
- lumbar vertebrae
- osteoporosis
- condition that produces a reduction in bone mass great enough to damage
- rickets
- marked by softening and bending of bones that occurs in growing kids
- rheumatoid
- synovial fluid overload breaking down articular cartilage
- osteoarthiris
- "wear and tear" of articular cartilage