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Skeletal System
The skeletal system provides definite shape and mechanical support to the body, and it also helps in movement and locomotion. Ask questions about the skeletal system and bones here.
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What insertion tendon of what group contains a patella?
The quadriceps muscle goes over the patella. The patella is encased in the quadriceps tendon. This tendon inserts on the tibia at the tibial tuberosity. Other muscles from the thigh have tendons which go underneath the patella.
What is the scientific word for foot bone?
It is called a phalange. Not sure about spelling tough. pronounced fa-lan-g. It is the same as your finger bone.
What is the overall purpose of the skeletal system?
To support the body. If we had no skeleton we would just be a mass of flesh and organs on the floor, unable to function, and would probably mean a quick death due to pressure on vital organs
What lubricants the joints of your bodies and allows your bones to slide over one another?
in between each bone there is a rough sort of rubbery material called cartilage which prevents bones from rubbing against each other.
What is the inner aspect of the ankle?
The side of the ankle is on the lateral side of the body. The ankle itself is called the talocrural region. Together you would say the lateral talocrural. Of course, you also need to say left or right.
The tringle shaped bone in your upper back?
The bones of the mid and upper back are the thoracic vertebrae. The neckbones are the cervical vertebrate and the lower back bones are the lumbar vertebrae.
What is the suture found between the two parietal bones?
The lambdoid suture connects the parietal bone of the skull to the occipital bone of the skull.
What is the most inferior part of the coxal bone?
The pubis, or pubic bone, is the most anterior part of the coxal bone (hip bone.)
Is there a funny bone in your hand?
The human hand has 27 bones, the carpus or wrist accounts for 8, the metacarpus or palm contains 5, the remaining 14 are found in the fingers and thumb.
What is the only bone in the body that doesn't form a joint with another bone?
The hyoid is the only bone that forms no joint.
Does your bones in your skull change as you get older as my bones sticks out on the top?
Yes, but only with exterior implants, because restructuring the skull would risk physiological changes to the brain. (potentially risky plastic surgery)
Can you sleep with elastic knee support?
If you mean rubber bands, then yes! You really need to, otherwise your teeth will move around a lot. Trust me, I would know...
What 2 components are responsible for the hardness and pliability of bones?
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No, teeth are not bones. Is the "skin" lining your stomach skin? It is soft like your "outside skin," but it is not the same.
Bones are defined by the presence of osteoblasts and osteoclasts, the two types of cells that produce and dissolve BONE in the body. Teeth are made by odontoblasts and ameloblasts, which are totally distinct and different from osteoblasts.
Is a skeleton made entirely of nonliving material?
Are you talking about shark skeletons?
Yes, they are bones. However, they are made of a different, softer material, than most bones from other animals - cartilage.
How many bones of the human body can you name?
Human babies have 270 bones at birth. Many fuse together, so an adult human's skeleton consists of 206 bones, in total. So let's name them together!
The bones in the adult human body include (number of each bone in parenthesis):
Vertebral column (spinal column)
- The spinal vertebrae of the vertebral column (33 bones)
- The cervical vertebrae (7)
- The thoracic vertebrae (12)
- The lumbar vertebrae (5)
- Extra lumber vertebrae
- The sacral vertebrae (5 at birth, later fused into one)
- The coccygeal vertebrae (4 at birth, later fused into one)
- The sternum (1)
- The ribs (24, in 12 pairs), including:
- (3) pairs (8th,9th and 10th pairs), also known as false ribs are attached anteriorly to each other and to the 7th rib by cartilages and synovial joints
- (2) pairs of floating ribs (11th and 12th pairs), have no anterior attachment.
- Cervical ribs
- The cranial bones (8)
- The occipital bone
- The parietal bones (2)
- The frontal bone
- The temporal bones (2)
- The sphenoid bone (sometimes counted as facial)
- The ethmoid bone (sometimes counted as facial)
- The facial bones (15)
- The nasal bones (2)
- The maxillae (upper jaw) (2)
- The lacrimal bone (2)
- The zygomatic bone (2);
- The palatine bone (2)
- The inferior nasal concha (2)
- The vomer
- The mandible (lower jaw)
- The hyoid bone (sometimes not counted as facial)
- In the middle ears (6)
- The bones of the upper arm (4 bones, 2 on each side)
- The bones of the lower arm (4 bones, 2 on each side)
- The hand (54 bones, 27 in each hand)
- The carpals
- scaphoid bone (2)
- lunate bone (2)
- triquetrum bone (2)
- pisiform bone (2)
- trapezium (2)
- trapezoid bone (2)
- capitate bone (2)
- hamate bone (2)
- The metacarpals (5 × 2=10)
- The phalanges of the hand
- proximal phalanges (5 × 2=10)
- intermediate phalanges (4 × 2=8)
- distal phalanges (5 × 2=10)
- The carpals
- The coxal bone, or hip bones, has three regions: ilium, ischium, and pubis (2)
- The sacrum and the coccyx attach to the two hip bones to form the pelvis
- The femur
- The patella or knee cap
- The tibia
- The fibula
- The foot (52 bones in total, 26 per foot)
- The tarsus
- calcaneus or heel bone (2)
- talus (2)
- navicular bone (2)
- medial cuneiform bone (2)
- intermediate cuneiform bone(2)
- lateral cuneiform bone (2)
- cuboid bone (2)
- The metatarsals (10)
- The phalanges of the foot
- proximal phalanges (5 × 2=10)
- intermediate phalanges (4 x 2= 8)
- distal phalanges (5 x 2=10)
- The tarsus
- Patella
- Pisiform bone
- Fabella
- Cyamella (bone)
- sesamoids in first and second metacarpal bones
- sesamoids in first metatarsal bone
- inconsistent sesamoids on other fingers and toes
- Lenticular process of the Incus bone
- Rider's bone
- inconsistent sesamoids in legs, arms, and buttocks
Whew! We're done!
