A & P Bone Test Notes
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- Name the 5 functions of the skeletal system
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support
storage
blood cell production
protection
leverage - What function of the skeletal system is support for the entire body and the framework for soft tissues and organs?
- support
- What function of the skeletal system is to protect organs and soft tissues, spinal cord, brain, lungs, and heart
- protection
- Name some of the long bone in the body
- arms, legs, phalanges
- Name some of the short bones
- carpuls & tarsals
- Name some of the thin, flat, relatively parallel surfaces
- Parietal bon in skull, ribs, sternum, shoulder blade
- Name some of the irregular bones
- Short, notched, flat, ridged bone such as vertebrae, skull, pelvis
- Name some of the sesamoid bones (small flat bones
- patella
- Name some of sutural bones (small, flat, irregular)
- Form in skull where it sutures together, can be size from a grain of sand to size of a quarter
- Name the two type of bone structure
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compact (Dense surface bone)
spongy bone (airy open network) - What is the shaft of the long bone called
- diaphysis
- What is the head of a long bone
- epiphysis