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Skeleton
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The body's framework
constructed of cartilage and bone |
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Axial Skeleton
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Bones that lie around the body's center of gravity
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Appendicular Skeleton
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Bones of the limbs, or appendages
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Compact Bone
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Smooth and homogenous
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Spongy Bone
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composed of trabeculae(bars) of bone and lots of open space.
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Long Bones
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longer than they are wide (fingers)
Prodominantly compact bone |
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Short Bones
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cube shaped
more spongy than compact ex. tarsals and carpals |
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Flat Bones
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thin,waferlike layers of compact bone sandwiching a layer of spongy bone
ex.skull |
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Irregular Bones
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Fall in no other catagory
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Sesamoid Bones
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Special types of short bones formed in tendons
ex. patella |
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Worman or Sutural Bones
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Tiny bones between cranial bones
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Articular cartilages
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cover the bone ends at moveable joints
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Costal Cartilages
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found connecting ribs to the sternum
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Laryngeal Cartilages
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Largely construct the larynx (voicebox)
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Tracheal and Bronchial Cartilages
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Reinforce other passageways of the resporatory system
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Nasal cartilages
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support the external nose
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Intervertebral discs
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seperate and cushion bones of the spine
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Most Important Skeletal Cartilages
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1) Articular cartaliges
2) Costal Cartilages 3) Laryngeal 4)tracheal and Bronchial 5) Nasal 6)intervertebral discs 7) cartilage supporting the ear |
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Cartilage tissue
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primarily of water and is fairly resilient
contain no nerves or blood tissues. |
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Perichondrium
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dense connective tissue surrounding cartilage
resist distortion growth and repair |
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Hyaline Cartilage
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Looks like frosted glass
sturdy support with some give |
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elastic cartilage
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more flexible than hyaline, tolerates repeated bending
ex. external ear, epiglottis |
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Fibrocartilage
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Rows of chondrocytes alternating with rows of thick collogen fibers
can withstand heavy compression |
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Axial Skeleton
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Skull; veterbral column; bony thorax
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Cranium
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enclose and protect the fragile brain tissue
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Skull
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cranium and facial bones
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facial bones
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present the eyes in an anterior position and form the base for the facial muscles
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Two Major areas of Cranium
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Cranial Vault; Cranial Floor
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Cranial Vault (calvaria)
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Superior,lateral, and posterior walls of skull
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Carnial Floor (base)
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Forms skull bottom
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Frontal Bone
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Anterior portion of cranium
-forms forhead;superior part of orbit; and floor of anterior cranial floss |
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Parietal Bone
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posterior to the frontal bone; forms sides of the cranium
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Occipital Bone
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Most posterior bone of the cranium
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Frontal Bone
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Anterior portion of cranium; forms the forhead;superior part of orbit; and floor of anterial cranial fossa
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Paranasal sinuses are in what skull bones
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maxillary, sphenoid, ethmoid, and frontal
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What to paransasal sinuses do?
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lighten the facial bones and act as resonanve chambers for speech
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What sinus is the largest sinus found in the skull?
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Maxillary sinus
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sinusitis?
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inflamation of the sinuses
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Cervical Curvature
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Top region
7 vertebrae |
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Thoracic Curvature
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Middle and largest
12 vertebrae |
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Lumbar curvature
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5 vertebrae
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Sacrum
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5 fused
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coccyx
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4 fused
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Vertebral Column
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skull to pelvis
forms the body's major axial support |
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Vertebrae
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24 single bones and two fused bones
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intervertebral discs
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cushion the verebrae and absorb shock
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