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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 happens to the skeletal system during physical activity?
Blood supply increases, muscle hypertrophies, lactic acid formation rises and partial pressure of oxygen falls. The endurance also increases.
Skeletal system also includes bones. The bones become stronger too.
Does bone protect the brain and lungs?
The skull protects the brain, and the ribs protect the lungs... so yes.
What other cavities are located inside the thoracic cavity?
Well according to Hole's Human A+P 11th Edition textbook; the Thoracic cavity is holds within it several cavities called the mediastnam and the left and right pleurals. How the cavities go is this
- Ventral
- Thoracic
- Mediastnam
- Left/right pleurals
- Abdominopelvic
- Adominal
- Pelvic
See the Ventral is the body cavity that hold everything else. It is the body except for the arms, legs, and head. Within it you break the cavities down. It follows the bullet list above as well having other cavities within it as well such as the pericardium cavity.
When you are laying on your side with the outer leg bended up at the knee the position is called?
dorsal recumbent
How ribs attach to skeleton true ribs and floating ribs?
All attach to a vertebra, The upper 6 also attach to the sternum, the bottom 6 just "float".
How many red blood cells does bone manufacture every day 5 hundred 10 thousand or 1 billion?
1 billion
What bone is crucial to speech?
The Hyoid Bone. Very unique because it is not connected to any other bones. Only ligaments.
What bone of the upper armis similar to the femur of the leg?
The Humerus bone would be most simialr to the femur. It goes from the shoulder to the elbow. there many muscles connected to it.It also connects the scaupla to the lower arm
Why do infants bones fuses as they grow?
If infants bones were not soft at the start the baby could not comfortably exit the birth canal. They grow together afterwards to protect the body's organs.
Where on the bone is cartlidge located?
cartilage :- it is a connective tissue which lies at joints between the bones or surrounding the bone
it is mainly of two kinds hylaine cartilage and fibro cartilage
the other areas where cartilage are found are :the rib cage, theear, the nose, the elbow, the knee, the ankle, the bronchial tubes and the intervertebral discs
Why does the area near your groin pubic bone feel bruised but was not?
This can be as a function of bicycle seats pressing in unfamiliar areas, or can be due to pressure of human sexual contact in ways that we are not familiar with. Your question needs to be more precise.
Does bone tissue function as a fat storage area?
The yellow marrow in the medullary cavity in long bones functions as a fat storage area.
What do you call the junctions between bones that are capable of a wide range of movements?
The are called synovial joints.
Does the human body have over 500 bones?
No,just 206 bones in an adult human,but the value can vary in an infant even over 300 cause the bones are in the process of being formed.This is quite contradictory to the fact that an infant is born with cartilage at its birth because cartilage is more flexible,thereby preventing the baby being crushed at the time of birth!
