EL - Skeleton Vocabulary

Skeleton

• The joint between your upper and lower arm

• The body's framework of bones that protects the internal organs

Vertebrae

• The largest bone in your leg

• The small bones that form the spinal column

Joint

• The body's framework of bones that protects the internal organs

• A place or point where two or more parts come together or are connected

dislocation

• The largest bone in your leg

• When bones in a joint are pushed out of place

fracture

• The small bones that form the spinal column

• When a bone breaks

bones

• the joint between your upper and lower arm

• the hard tissue that forms the skeleton

skull

• the largest bone in your leg

• the bones that protect your brain

spine

• the backbone

• the joint between your upper and lower arm

knee

• the joint between the upper and lower leg

• the joint between the upper and lower arm

femur

• the backbone

• the largest bone in your leg