Lou's grandmother used to be taller than all of her sisters. Now she is shorter and recently fell and easily fractured her hip. What disorder would cause these symptoms?

Rachel has unequal leg lengths and one shoulder is higher than the other. This uneven posture is causing an abnormal side to side curvature of the spine. Rachel's diagnosis is:

The areas where cranial bones join together to form immovable joints are called:

Students often have poor posture while sitting at their computers. This posture includes round shoulders, head forward, and hunchback. These symptoms describe:

What type of joint is the elbow?

Chewing involves the use of which moveable skull bone?

What type of joint allows for the greatest freedom of movement?

Major organs of the body are located within the skull, ribs and pelvis. What function of the skeletal system are these bones performing?

What bone is located on the thumb side of the lower arm?

Which is an open fracture?

How many vertebrae are in the cervical spine?

The adult skeleton has how many bones?

An osteocyte is a mature bone cell

The shaft of a long bone is called?

Osteoclast do what?

Rheumatoid arthritis is an autoimmune disease

ligaments are

surgical repair of a fracture

This type of fracture is common in children, the bone bends and partially breaks

Cranial bone in the back of the head

Two sections of the skeleton

Type of joint found in your thumb

The process of incorporating calcium and minerals into cartilage to become bone is called

Function of the skeleton

A joint is

Movement away from the midline

Movement that brings two bones closer together

Range of motion that is controlled by the individual

The medullary canal is filled with ______ in an adult.

Red marrow is mostly located where in adults?

Epiphyseal plates are also known as:

spongy bone keeps bones

This type of joint allows movement in one or more direction

Middle part of the spine- connects to the ribs in places

Also known as a collar bone, part of the shoulder girdle

Also known as the tailbone, at the bottom of the vertebral column

The bone in the lower leg, larger of the two, shin bone

upper arm bone

these bones protect your heart and lungs

Bones of the fingers and toes

Also known as your shoulder blade

A sesamoid shaped bone

Articular Cartilage

Compact bone is weaker than spongy bone

The hormones calcitonin and parathyroid hormone aid in

Part of the axial skeleton

Part of the appendicular skeleton

An embryonic skeleton begins as

Bones are composed of