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| What does the Cranium (skull) do? |
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| Houses on protects the brain |
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| Where does the cranium sit? |
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| on top of the spine and is made up of several sutured bones, including the occipital bone at the base of the skull |
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| What is the mandible and what does it do? |
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| The jaw - it enables chewing |
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| A small floating bone in the throat. |
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| What does the hyoid bone do? |
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| It assists in speech and swallowing. |
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| What is another name for the ribs? |
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| How many ribs do we have? |
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| How many bones make up the articulating spine? |
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| 24 vertebrae - 7 of the cervical spine - 12 of the thoracic spine - 5 of the lumbar spine |
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| What are the two fused bones at the base of the spine? |
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| The sacrum and the coccyx |
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| What does the cervical spine support? |
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| What do the vertebrae in the lumbar spine support? |
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| The weight of the upper body |
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| What is another word for sacrum? |
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| How many bones make up the sacrum? |
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| 4-5 fused bones that sit below the lumbar spine |
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| What is the anotomically correct word for tailbone? |
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| How many bones make up the coccycx? |
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| 3-5 infused bones which is the attachment site for several pelvic floor muscles |
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| How many bones make up the human skeleton? |
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| How many bones are in the hands and feet? |
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| at joints, which can be freely moveable, partially moveable, or fused. |
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| A bowl shaped, supports weight of abdominal organs, and connects the spine to the legs |
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| How many bones make up the pelvis? |
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| 3 bones - the sacrum and two innominate (unnamed) bones |
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| What makes up the innominate bones? |
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| 3 fused bones - illium, pubis, ischium |
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| What is another name for the innominate bones? |
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| Wher is the pubic bone located? |
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| Where is the ischium located? |
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| Where is the illium located? |
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| What is another name for the sits bones? |
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| What is another name for hip points? |
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| Anterior superior iliac spine |
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| What are the sacroiliac joints (SI joints)? |
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| Part of the bony pelvis between the sacrum and the ilium of the pelvis, which are joined by strong ligaments. |
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| It connects to the pelvis to form the iliifemoral joint (hip joint) and to transfer the weight of the upper body down in to the lower leg and foot. |
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| Sits below the femur to form the knee joint which enables walking. |
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| What does the patella do? |
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| Part of the knee joint whose primary function is to leverage the work of the quadiceps in extending the knee. |
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| sits to the lateral side of the tibia and serves primarily as the site of muscle attachments. |
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| What do the ankle and foot do? |
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| negotiate terrain and maintain balance. |
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| What is another word for ankle bone? |
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| What is the talus bone hugged by? |
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| the tibia and fibula like a nut in a crescent wrench. |
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| What bones are located in the foot? |
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| tarsals, metatarsels, and phalanges. |
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| What are the metatarsels? |
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| long bones in the foot that extend beyond the tarsels to the toes |
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| Rock-like bones just below the talus |
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| What is the occiptial ridge? |
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| Lower portion of the cranium |
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| What is another name for thorax? |
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| What does the thorax (rib cage) do? |
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| Houses and protects the lungs and heart (vital organs) |
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| What three bones make up the sternum? |
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| Manubrium (top of sternum) sternum (body of breastbone), xyphoid process (tip of the breastbone) |
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| How many ribs attach directly to the sternum? |
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| What does the shoulder girdle do? |
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| Connects the arms to spine, increases range of motion (ROM) of the arms at the shoulder joint. |
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| What is the shoulder girdle made up of? |
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| Scapula (shoulder blades, clavicles (collar bones), axial skeleton (spine and thorax) |
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| Two broad flat bones that live on the back of he upper thorax just above the shoulder joint. It attaches to the clavicle. |
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| Two S-shaped bones that also join with the sternum at the top of the chest. Only bony attachment (joint) for the shoulder girdle to the axial skeleton. |
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| What is the axial skeleton? |
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| What do the arm bones do? |
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| Leverage work of the hands |
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| Humerus (upper arm bone), ulna (forearm bone pinky side), radius (forearm bone thumb side) |
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| What is the glenoid fossa? |
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| Part of the scapula where the humerus connects at the shoulder girdle. |
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| What bones form the elbow joint? |
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| Wher the ulna (pinky side) and radius (thumb side) connects with the humerus. |
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| Rock-like bones that connect with the ulna and radius to form the wrist (complex joint) |
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| What are the metacarpals? |
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| What are the phalanges of the hand? |
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