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| connection between two bones without cartilage |
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| surround the cranial cavity, 8 bones in contact with meninges |
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| support teeth and form nasal cavity and orbit, 14 bones with no direct contact with brain or meninges; help with attachment of facial and jaw muscles |
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| made up of 26 bones namely cervical, thoracic, lumbar, sacral, and coccyx verebrae; protects your spinal cord |
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| 1st cervical vertebrae which doesn't have a body and provides for the range of motion for nodding head; superior articular facets articulate with the occipital condyles of the skull. |
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| 2nd cervical vertebra with a unique superior process called the dens or odontoid process that runs through the atlas and allows the atlas to rotate on the axis; provides for range of motion as shaking head no |
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| has 3 foramina (1 vertebral and two transverse) with smaller lightweight bodies; some have bifid spinous processes that are split in two or bifurcated |
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| medium sized body with markings on the lateral, posterior surface attached to the ribs; long, narrow spinous process that commonly slants inferiorly with facets on the transverse process that articulate with the ribs. |
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| no transverse formina with no rib facets and the largest bodies; thick spinous processes that extend horizontally and are shorter and thicker; bigger body, transverse process smaller, |
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| made up of 24 ribs and sternum |
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| other part of skeletal system where bones attach by cartilage |
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| first seven pairs of ribs whose costal cartilage attaches directly to the sternum |
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| remaining five pairs of ribs |
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| floating ribs as they do not join with sternum; attach at back |
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| manubrium, body, and xiphoid process |
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| three parts of sternum in order from top to bottom? |
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| a free-hanging horseshoe shaped bone found in the neck between the chin and the thyroid cartilage; distantly articulates to other bones by muscles and ligaments; important for swallowing and sound production. |
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