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45 Cards in this Set
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Wolf's Law |
The Bone will be remodeled according to it's stresses. More work bone increases, less work , bone decreses |
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Flat Bones |
Ribs and Cranium |
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Short Bones |
Carpals, Tarsals |
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Irregular Bones |
Vertebrae, Facial Bones |
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Sesamoid Bones |
Some Tendons over joints; patella |
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Wormian Bones |
Skull Structures |
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Head |
Rounded |
Bone Marking, Bony Landmarks |
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Process |
Projection of a bone |
Vertebrae |
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Condyle |
Smooth, rounded articular projection |
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Epicondyle |
Raised area on, or above a condyle |
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Facet |
Smooth, nearly flat surface |
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Crest |
Distinct ridge; rough |
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Spine |
Sharp projection from a bone |
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Tuberosity |
Large round projection |
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Tubercle |
Small round projection |
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Foramen |
Hole allowing nerve or vessels to pass through |
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Sinus |
Air space in some skull bones |
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Fossa |
Depression on bone surface |
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Meatus |
Short channel or passageway; tube like , longer than a hole |
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Fissure |
Slit like opening |
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Temporal bone |
Has mastoid sinuses, external auditory meatus, mastoid process, styloid process, zygomatic process; side of skull |
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Frontal bone |
Front; paranasal sinuses |
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Ethmoid bone |
Between eyes, paranasal sinuses, most of septum |
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Sphenoid bone |
Paranasal sinuses; looks like butterfly, holds and protect pituitary gland |
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Occipital bone |
Foramen magnum, spinal cord passes through. |
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Hyoid bone |
Just below mandible, muscles attach to it, doesn't articulate with any other bone |
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Vetebral column |
7 cervical 12 thoracic 5 lumbar 5 sacrum 4 coccyx 24 typical, 33 total |
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Neural arch |
Aka vertebral arch Behind the body, formed by two pedicles and two lamina |
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Vertebral foramen |
Hole through the bony ring formed by both pedicles and both lamina |
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Transverse processes |
Lateral projections from each vertebral arch , attachment points for muscles |
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Spinous process |
Projects posteriorly from each vertebral arch Bony lumps you feel down your back! |
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Articulating processes |
On top and bottom of each vertebral arch |
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Intervertebral foramina |
Hole formed between two vertebrae. Spinal nerves exit spinal column through these spaces |
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Three joint complex |
Between any two vertebrae 1 disk 2 facet joints |
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Bending forwards compresses.... |
The disk |
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Bending backward compresses... |
The facet joints |
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What passes through the transverse foramina? |
The vertebral artery |
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The facets in the cervical vertebrae are... |
Horizontal rather than vertical |
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What two cervical vertebrae don't have same characteristics as every other cervical vertebrae? |
Atlas (C1) and Axis (C2) |
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The Atlas (C1) |
No central body Articulate with occipital bone Larger foramen Allows head to rock No spinous process |
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The Axis (C2) |
Allows head to go side to side Projects into atlas |
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Dens / odontoid |
Where the atlas sits and is able to rotate |
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Costovertebral facet |
Articulation rib with vertebral body |
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Costotransverse facet |
Articulation of rib with transverse process |
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Demicostovertebral facet |
Articulation of rib with 2 vertebral bodies |
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