+
Related Flashcards
Cards In This Set
| Front | Back |
|
Longitudinal axis
|
Skull, vertebral column, bony thorax (thoracic cage)[ribs, sternum, scapula]
|
|
Sutures
|
All bones in skull joined by _______ except the mandible
|
 #7 = external acoustic meatus, #23 = frontal bone |
 {lateral skull} Identify #7 and #23 |
 Foramen magnum |
 {superior skull (top of cranium removed)} Identify the big hole |
|
Paranasal sinuses
|
Lighten skull bones and amplify the sounds we make when we speak (air-filled, mucous membrane lined)
|
 P.147 |
 Identify the paranasal sinuses |
|
Hyoid bone
|
Movable base for tongue, attachment point for neck muscles that raise and lower larynx when we swallow and speak
|
|
Fontanels
|
Fibrous membranes connecting the cranial bones; allow fetal skull to be compressed slightly during birth and allow brain to grow
|
|
7 cervial, 12 thoracic, 5 lumbar
|
How many vertebrae in each section
|
|
Intervertebral discs
|
Pads of flexible fibrocartilage; cusion vertebrae and absorb shocks while allowing spine flexibility
|
|
Comminuted fracture
|
Bone breaks into many fragments
|
|
Impacted fracture
|
Broken bone ends are forced into each other
|
|
Greenstick fracture
|
Bone breaks incompletely
|
|
Reduction
|
Realignment of broken bone ends
|
|
1) hematoma, 2) fibrocartilage callus formation, 3) bony callus formation, 4) bone remodeling
|
Stages of bone fracture healing
|
