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64 Cards in this Set
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Where is the Tibia located?
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The big bone on the inside of your leg.
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What is the Clavicle?
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Your collarbone.
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What is the Scapula?
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Your shoulder blades.
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Define Proximal.
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Close to the origin of the body part or the point of attachment of a limb to the body trunk.
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Define Anatomy.
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The study of structures and relationship of structures to each other.
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Gross Anatomy: What is this?
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What you CAN see with your eyes.
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Microscopic Anatomy: What is this?
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What you CAN'T see with your eyes.
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Define Physiology.
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The study of how organs and body parts function.
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What is Anatomical Position?
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Hands at sides. Palms forward.
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What is Supine?
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Face up
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What is Prone?
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Face down
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Name the levels of organization.
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Chemical
Cellular Tissue Organ Organ System Organism |
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Name the regions of the body from left to right, top to bottom.
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Left Hypochondriac, Epigastric, Right Hypochondriac
Left Lumbar, Umbillical, Right Lumbar Left Illiac, Hypogastric, Right Illiac |
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What does the Dorsal Body Cavity contain?
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The Cranial Cavity, The Spinal Cavity, and the Coccyx.
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What does the Ventral Body Cavity contain?
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The Thoratic Cavity, The Diaphragm, The Abdominal Cavity, and The Pelvic Cavity.
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List, describe, and give an example of each type of bone.
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Long: Longer in length than in width; The Femur
Short: Cube shaped; Ankle and Wrist, also the Patella Flat: A layer of spongy bone between two layers of compact bone; The scapula Irregular: Any bone having a peculiar or complex shape or form; The Vertebra |
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List all 10 directional terms used when referring to anatomical structures.
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Superior, Inferior, Anterior, Posterior, Distal, Proximal, Superficial, Deep, Medial, Lateral
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What is osteoblast?
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Bone forming cells
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What is osteoclast?
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The cell that breaks down bones.
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What is osteocyte?
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A cell formed from an osteoblast when it becomes trapped within the bone it creates.
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What is Superior?
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Toward the head or the upper part of the body.
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What is inferior?
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Away from the head or toward the lower part of your body.
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What is Anterior?
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Toward the front of the body.
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What is Posterior?
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Toward the back of the body.
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What is distal?
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Far away from the origin of the body part.
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What is lateral?
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Away from the midline of the body.
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What is Medial?
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Towards the midline of the body.
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What is deep?
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Away from the body surface; more internal
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What is superficial?
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Towards the body surface.
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What is intermidiate?
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Between a more lateral and a more medial structure.
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What is collagen?
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Fibrous protein that is used to connect and support other body tissues.
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What are mineral salts?
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Mineral salts keep the bone strong and tough. Mainly Calcium and Phosphorus.
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How do bones store the minerals and lipids?
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Lipids go into yellow marrow and minerals are turned into osteocytes, -blasts, and -clasts.
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How does the skeleton produce blood?
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Blood is created with bones and is pumped out to the rest of your body.
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How are bones your structure and support for your whole body?
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If you didn't have bones, you would just be a sack of guts. You wouldn't be able to move. Bones are what hold us up and together.
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How do bones act as a lever to help you move?
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when you move one thing, you have to use the rest of your boy also.
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What is compact bone?
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Dense, tough bone that is located underneath the periosteum.
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What is spongy bone?
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Consists of interwoven beams of bone and is located in the epiphysis of long bones.
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What is the periosteum?
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A fibrous, sensitive, cellular, and vascular bone that acts as a life support sheath for the bone. Helps provide nutrient blood.
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What is the epiphysis?
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The ends of a long bone.
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What is the diaphysis?
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The shaft of a long bone.
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What is articular cartilage?
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It keeps your bones from rubbing together, which would cause arthritis.
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What is the mudullary cavity?
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The cavity of the diaphysis which contains marrow.
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What is red marrow?
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Red, squishy substance composed of red and white blood cells.
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What is yellow marrow?
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Yellow, fatty, connective tissue that is not productive of blood cells and eventually take the place of red marrow.
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What is the nutrient artery?
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The main artery and major supplier of oxygen and other necessary nutrients for the shaft or body of the bone.
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What is a ball and socket joint? Example too.
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Movements in all directions are permitted. Shoulder, hip.
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What is a hinge joint? Example too.
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Permits movement in only the extension/flexion plane.
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What is a saddle joint? Example too.
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Permits all motions but rotation. The thumb is an example.
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What is an ellipsoid joint? Example too.
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A reduced ball and socket joint. Significant rotation is largely excluded.
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What is a pivot joint? Example too.
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Has a ring of bone around a peg. The head.
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What is a gliding joint? Example too.
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Has generally flat, articulating surfaces. The clavical.
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What is Flexion?
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To bend or decrease angle of bones and joint.
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What is extension?
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To generally straighten.
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What is dorsiflexion?
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extension and the wrist and ankle joints.
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What is plantar flexion?
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Flexion at the ankle joint.
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What is adduction?
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To bend towards the midline of the body.
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What is abduction?
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To bend away from the midline of the body.
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What is circumduction?
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A circular movement.
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What is rotation?
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To turn the moving joint about its axis.
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What is supination?
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The external rotation of the radiohumeral joint.
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What is pronation?
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The internal rotation of the radiohumeral joint.
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What is inversion?
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Turns the sole of the foot inward so that the medial border of the foot is revealed.
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What is eversion?
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Turns the sole of the foot outward so that its lateral border is elevated.
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