Skeletal

• Skeletal System - Provides support, points of attachment for the muscles
• Skeletal System - - protects delicate internal organs
• Skeletal System - makes blood and stores minerals
• Osteology - study of bones
• Bones - Have blood vessels, lymphatic vessels and nerves
• Bones - Are hard yet flexible, hardness is due to their mineral content
• Periosteum - The tough membrane that surrounds and protects the bones
• Bone cells - makes the bone hard
• Marrow - Soft inner part of the bone
• Red Marrow - producers red blood corpuscles and most of white corpuscles
• Yellow Marrow - Serves as storage for fats
• Axial Skeleton - this includes skull, vertebral, ribs, and sternum, hyaid in the back
• Appendicular Skeleton -  this includes shoulders, arms, hips and legs
• Clavicle - collarbone
• Scapula - Shoulder Blade
• Humerus - upper arm bone
• Radius - set of bones extending from the elbow down to your hand
• Radius - outer bone of the lower arm.
• Humerus - Upper arm bone
• Ulna - inner bone of the lower arm
• Metacarpals -  bones of the palm
• Carpals - bone in the wrist of your hand.
• Phalanges - bones of your fingers
• Pelvis or hip bone - supports the lower portion of the body and facilitates the movement of the leg
• Femur - The longest and the strongest bone in your skeleton
• Femur - long upper bone
• Patella - Knee cap
• Patella - protects the knee joints
• Tibia - Shinbone
• Fibula - Calf bone
• Tarsals - bones of the ankles
• Metatarsals - bones of the sole/instep
• Phalanges - bones in the toes
• Coccyx - commonly referred to as the tailbone
• Joint -  is a point where bones meet