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25 Cards in this Set
- Front
- Back
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Frontal Bone
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Forehead and eyesockets
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Temporal bones
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both sides around the ear and lower jaw
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Parietal bones
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each side above the temporal bone
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Occipital bone
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back of the head and base of the skull
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Scapula
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upper back bone (shoulder bone)
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Humerus
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upper arm bone
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Radius
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lower arm bone on the thumb side
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Ulna
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lower arm bone on the little finger side
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Tibia
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lower leg bone; largest of the lower leg bones
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Fibula
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smallest of the lower leg bones; lower lateral bone of the leg
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Tarsals
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Ankle bones
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Metatarsals
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Bones in the foot
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Carpals
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wrist bones
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Patella
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Knee bone
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Xipohoid process
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lowest portion of the sternum
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Cervical
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seven bones in the vertebrae that curve inward; atlas is the top bone
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Thoracic
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twelve bones in the vertebrae that curve outward
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Lumbar
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Five fused bones in the vertebrae that curve outward
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Coccygeal
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four fused bones in the vertebrae
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Smallest bones in the body
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malleus, incus, and stapes (bones in the ear)
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Greater Trochanter
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"knob" or muscle attachment process at the top of the femus
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Impacted
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broken ends of of the bone penetrate into eachother
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Comminuted
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more than one piece of the bone is broken
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Laminectomy and Spinal fusion
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removing part of a vertebrae in order to remove a protrusion of the disk and fusing the area to stabilize
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Traction and reduction
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pulling on opposite ends of a bone to realign the bone
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