BIOD 151 module 4 (skeletal)- Exam Questions Answered Correctly Latest Update 2024
What is the function of the flat bones? - Answers Produce red blood cells; protection of internal organs
Describe the shape of a long bone and what its design allows. - Answers Long and thin, supports body weight a...
What is the function of the flat bones? - Answers Produce red blood cells; protection of internal organs
Describe the shape of a long bone and what its design allows. - Answers Long and thin, supports body
weight and enables movement
Name the five basic bone shapes. - Answers Long, flat, short, irregular, sesamoid
What term best describes a hollow chamber in bone, usually filled with air? - Answers Sinus
True or false: A sulcus is a raised ridge in bone. - Answers False, a sulcus is a depression
What division of the skeleton lies along the midline? - Answers Axial
True or false: Fontanelles are present in adults. - Answers False, in infants
What two bones of the cranium lie primarily within the skull? - Answers sphenoid and the ethmoid
True or false: The frontal bone is a paired bone of the cranium. - Answers False
Which bone contains the foramen magnum? - Answers occipital
What is the purpose of the foramen magnum? - Answers spinal cord passes to become the brain stem
Sinusitis is an infection of the ___. - Answers Sinuses
What is the function of the nasal conchae? - Answers swirl the air as it is breathed in through the nasal
passages, helping to warm and humidify the air before it enters the lower respiratory system
What are the only unpaired bones of the facial skeleton? - Answers mandible and vomer
What bone forms the anterior portion of the hard palate? - Answers maxilla
True or false: A typical spine is completely straight when standing vertically. - Answers False
True or false: The vertebral body is located anteriorly and can be palpated along the surface of the back.
- Answers False: located anteriorly, but it's the spinous processes that can be palpated
The vertebrae fit together to protect the ___, located in the vertebral canal. - Answers spinal cord
True or False: A typical thoracic vertebra has a bifid spinous process. - Answers False
What is the purpose of transverse foramina in cervical spinal vertebrae? - Answers Passage of vertebral
arteries and veins
What region of the spine contains costal facets? - Answers Thoracic
What is the purpose of costal facets? - Answers rib articulations
, Which region of the spine has the largest vertebral bodies? - Answers lumbar
The line along the midline of the sacrum is called the ___. - Answers median sacral crest
True or False: Ribs 11 and 12 have no posterior attachment to the thoracic vertebrae. - Answers false: no
anterior attachment
True or false: Anteriorly, the clavicle connects to the scapula. - Answers False
True or false: The medial border of the scapula connects directly to the neck of the scapula. - Answers
False
True or false: The subscapular fossa is located on the anterior side of the scapula. - Answers True
Why is the glenohumeral joint prone to dislocation? - Answers it is held in place primarily by muscular
and ligament attachment with very little bony stability
The capitulum articulates with a small portion of the ___. - Answers radius
True or false: The lateral epicondyle of the humerus can be palpated on the medial side of the arm at
the elbow. - Answers false, medial epicondyle
What is the prominent bone that can be palpated in the elbow posteriorly? - Answers Ulna
What structures connects the ulna and radius along their shafts? - Answers interosseous membrane
Name the carpal bones from lateral to medial. - Answers trapezium, trapezoid, capitate, hamate,
pisiform
Do the carpal bones of the hand articulate with the metacarpals or proximal phalanges? - Answers
metacarpals
The coxal bones are connected posteriorly to the ___. - Answers sacrum
The superior most region on the ilium is called the ___. - Answers Iliac crest
The ASIS is a bone landmark on what bone? - Answers Ilium
What are the main differences in the male and female pelvic shapes? Why? - Answers the pubic arch is
wider in females than males, the pubic brim is more like an oval in females and a circle in males. these
differences accomodate child bearing
True or false: The intertrochanteric crest articulates with the acetabulum. - Answers false
What bone lies anteriorly to the femur? - Answers patella
The medial malleolus of the ankle is a part of what bone? - Answers tibia
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