What includes the bones of the skeleton and the cartilages, ligaments, and other connective tissues that stabilizes or interconnect the bones?

Which is not a section of the axial skeleton?

How many bones does the axial skeleton contain?

What is it called when a bone contacts with other bones?

What are areas of muscle and ligament attachments called?

What are openings for nerves and blood vessels called?

What bones are also known as Wormian bones?

What bones are small, flat, irregularly shaped bones between the flat bones of the skull?

What is a collection of bones which encase the brain and give form to the head and face?

How many cranial and facial bones do we have?

What is not a part of the vertebral column?

How many ribs are in the thoracic cage?

What does the thoracic cage consist of?

What does the skull not protect?

What is the part of the skull that encloses the brain?

What facial bones are for muscle attachment?

What facial bones separate the oral and nasal cavities?

What are cavities that decrease the weight of the skull?

What are immovable joints of the skull called?

What is not one of the four major sutures?

Which suture separates the occipital from the parietal bones?

Which suture attaches the frontal bone to the parietal bone?

What suture is between the parietal bones?

What suture forms boundaries between temporal bones and parietal bones?

What bone form the back and base of the skull, and through which the spinal cord passes?

What bone is either of the two skull bones between the frontal and occipital bones and forming the top and sides of the cranium?

What bone forms the front part of the skull and the upper part of the eye sockets?

What pair of bones form part of the side of the skull on each side and enclose the middle and inner ear?

What bone is a compound bone that forms the base of the cranium and has two broad lateral "wings"?

What bone is a square bone at the root of the nose and has many perforations through which the olfactory nerves passes to the nose?

What bones are the upper-jaw bone that makes up the keystone bones of the facial skeleton?

What bone forms the anterior portion of the hard palate of the mouth?

What bone is slender, fragile, scroll-like, is a lipped area inside the bone, and forms part of the nose?

What bone creates air turbulence in the nasal cavity, increases the epithelial surface area, and warms and humidifies inhaled air?

What is the smallest facial bone?

What bone is the horizontal portion that forms the chin and allows for the chewing of food?

What is the depression in the temporal bone that articulates with the mandible called?

What bone is a u-shaped bone in the neck that attaches muscles of the larynx, pharynx, and tongue?

What are the bones and cartilage that enclose the nasal cavities and paranasal sinuses called?

What are two small oblong bones, varying in size and form in different individuals called?

What are air-filled chambers connected to the nasal cavities called?

Which is not one of the four paranasal sinuses?

What is the column of vertebrae between the skull and hip bones, supporting the body, and shielding the spinal cord called?

What is is the functions of the vertebral column?

How many bones are in the vertebral column?

Which is not a region of the vertebral column?

How many and what vertebrae make up the neck?

How many and what vertebrae make up the upper back?

How many and what vertebrae make up the lower back?

The scarum articulates with the coccyx.

What do we call the curves that are present during fetal development?

What curves appear after birth?

What curves are primary curves?

What curves are secondary curves?

What curve develops as the infant learns to balance the weight of its head on the vertebrae of the neck?

Which vertebrae is the smallest and lightest?

What curve provides room for the thoracic organs?

Which vertebrae have a distinctive heart-shaped body?

Which curve develops with the ability to stand?

What curve provides room for various abdominopelvic organs?

What do we call any of the bones or segments that compose the spinal column?

What are gaps between pedicles of adjacent vertebrae that are for nerve connections to the spinal cord called?

What is formed by vertebral forminae and encloses the spinal cord?

What are pads of fibrocartilage that separate the vertebral bodies and absorb shock?

What is the uppermost vertebrae of the spinal column called?

What is the second cervical vertebrae?

The axis and atlas bodies never fuse during development.

What are strong toothlike projections going upward from the body of the axis around which the atlas rotates?

What is a spinelike process of a bone, especially the dorsal projection from the center of the arch of a vertebrae called?

What is a process that projects from the sides of a vertebrae called?

What is an opening in the transverse process of a cervical vertebrae for the passage of the vertebral artery and vein called?

What is a traumatic dislocation of the cervical vertebrae called?

What organs does the sacrum not protect?

The adult sacrum consists of 5 vertebrae fused together between puberty and 25-30.

When the adult sacrum fuses it leaves what type of lines?

What is the tapering lower end of the sacrum that articulates with the coccyx called?

What bone is at the bottom of the spine very near to the anus?

What does the thoracic cage not contain?

What forms the ribs and sternum?

What is the function of the thoracic cage?

What is another name for ribs?

There are two types of ribs: true ribs and fasle ribs.

What do we call a rib that is attached directly to the breastbone?

What ribs are true ribs?

What are the lower ribs that are not attached directly to the breastbone called?

What ribs are false ribs?

What type of false ribs fuse together and merge with the cartilage before reaching the sternum?

What false ribs only connect to the vertebrae? (They have no connection with the sternum.)

What is a thickened ventral plate on each segment of the body?

What is not a part of the sternum?

What part of the sternum is a process or heart shaped like handle?

What part of the sternum is the middle and largest portion of the sternum?

What part of the sternum is a small process on the bottom of the sternum?

What is the last part of the sternum to fuse?

What is a relatively soft, flexible, fibrous region between two flat bones in the developing skull?

How many fontanels are found in the skull?

What fontanel is the largest space where the frontal angles or the parietal bones meet the un-united halve of the frontal bones?

What fontanel includes the lambdoid fontanel and the occipital fontanel?

When does the anerior fontanel disappear?

What fontanel is located at the junctions between the squamous sutures and the coronal sutures?

What fontanel is at the junctions between the squamous sutures and the lambdoid sutures?

What is a break in bone or cartilage called?

What type of fracture is where the bone snaps into two or more parts and the bone moves so that the two ends are not lined up straight?

What type of fracture is when the bone cracks either part or all of the way through, but does not move and maintains its proper alignment?

What type of fracture is where the fracture has an open wound or break in the skin near the site of the broken bone?

What is another name for open fracture?

What type of fracture is when the broken bone doesn't break your skin?

What is another name for a closed fracture?