Exam 24: The Skeletal System

A membrane that lines the medullary cavity and the holes of cancellous bone and contains bone-forming cells is the ________.

Each wrist contains eight marble-sized ________ bones.

The ________ bones form part of the floor of the cranium.

A prominent projection on a bone is known as a(n) ____.

The ________ skeleton has 126 bones, including the bones of the arms and legs, the pectoral girdle, and the pelvic girdle.

Inflammation of the fluid-filled sac that cushions tendons is ________.

Letter F is the ________ cartilage, which connects the ribs to the sternum.

Fibrous joints in the skull are called ________.

Letter B on the figure of the femur is the yellow _________.

When educating patients with gout, you should recommend that they ____.

The knuckles are joints that join the phalanges to the metacarpals and are called the ________ (MCP) joints.

Cells that form bone are called ________.

An enlargement at the end of a bone is called a(n) ____.

The joints between the phalangeal bones are the proximal and distal ________ joints.

Commonly known as the collarbone, the ________ is slender in shape and joins with the sternum and scapula.

The ________ is letter D on the figure of the rib cage.

The ____ bones form the prominence of the cheeks.

The ________ is a thin bone that divides the nasal cavity.

This bone is thin and flat and is also called the shoulder blade.

The ________ girdle attaches the arms to the axial skeleton.