Skeletal system (axial)

• Study of human bones?

  Osteology
• ostéon? and logos?

  bones and means study
• Resistant to many types of decays and often form the most lasting record of an individual existence?

  Bones and teeth
• How many bones are there in a human body?

  206
• Largest bone in a human body?

  Femur
• Bones are classified into two types based on their shape: long bones and short bones.
• Sutures are immovable joints between cranial bones.
• The parietal bones are located laterally on the top of the head.
• Other term for skull?

  Cranium
• Other name for spine/ backbone ?

  Vertebrae
• Our cranium protects our?

  brain and eyes
• the ribs protect our?

  heart and lungs
• our vertebrae protect our?

  spinal cord
• basic structure for muscles to attach themselves onto so that our bodies are able to move?

  Bones
• contributes to the regulation of blood sugar?

  skeletal system
• The process of identifying remains of an recently dead individual is called?

  Individuation
• The bones on the skull are joined by?

  Sutures
• A kind of joint that is “SYNARTHRODIAL” in other words?


  It can’t move
• Bone that is found at the back of the skull?

  Occipital bone
• Found in the middle and inferior portion of the neurocranium and it kinda looks like a butterfly?

  sphenoid bone
• One of the seven bones that articulate the form of the orbit? It is infront if the temporal bone

  Sphenoid bone
• Found between the eyes, located at the roof of your nose and separates the nasal cavity from the brain?

  Ethmoid bone
• Bone on your forehead?

  frontal bone
• Frontal bone has two portion

  Vertical portion

  horizontally oriented orbital portion
• Bones on the middle ear or the smallest bone in your body are called?

  Ossicles
• What are the 3 set of ossicles found side by side of your head?

  Malleus (hammer)

  incus ( anvil)

  stapes ( stirrup)
• Largest bone in a human face?

  Mandible ( jaw bone)
• The only movable bone in the skull aside from ossicle?

  Mandible
• Connects the temporal and parietal bone?

  Squamous suture
• Medical term for heart attack?

  Myocardial infarction
• Baby’s has many bone?

  Approximately 270
• Skeletal is divided into two main zones?

  axial bones

  appendicular bones
• The human skeleton is classified by thier shape?

  long bones, short bones, flat bones, sutural bones, sesamoid bones, and irregular bones