RTE 1503 FINAL UPDATED ACTUAL
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS
COMPLETE STUDY GUIDE
●● What is arthrology?
Answer: study of joints
●● How many bones make up the axial skeleton
Answer: 80
●● How many bones make up the appendicular skeleton
Answer: 126
●● What do long bones consist of?
Answer: A body and two ends or extremities
●● The body or shaft of a long bone contains _______
Answer: Thicker layer of compact bone
●● Where is spongy bone found?
Answer: Inside the shell of compact bone
,●● TRUE OR FALSE : the body of a long bone is hollow.
Answer: TRUE
●● What is hyaline?
Answer: Glassy or clear cartilage
●● What is the periosteum?
Answer: Essential for bone growth, repair and nutrition
●● What are short bones?
Answer: cuboidal shape wrist and ankles.
●● What do short bones consist of?
Answer: Cancellous tissues with a thin outer covering of compact bone.
●● How many carpel bones are there?
Answer: 8
●● How many tarsal bones are there?
Answer: 7
,●● What do flat bones consist of?
Answer: two plates of compact bone with cancellous bone and bone
marrow between them
●● What are examples of flat bones
Answer: Calvaria, sternum, ribs, scapulae
●● What are irregular bones?
Answer: Peculiar shapes that are lumped together
●● What are examples of irregular bones?
Answer: vertebrae, facial bones, pelvis, base of cranium
●● What is ossification?
Answer: process of bone formation
●● Where are red blood cells produced?
Answer: red bone marrow of some flat and irregular bones
●● What is intramembranous ossification?
Answer: Bone replaces membranes. Occurs rapidly
, ●● What is endochondral ossification?
Answer: Bone replaced cartilage. Occurs slowly
●● Where does endochondral ossification occur?
Answer: long bones
●● The primary center of ossification
Answer: diaphysis
●● secondary center of ossification
Answer: epiphysis
●● Where do epiphyses appear first
Answer: Distal femur and proximal tibia
●● What is the metaphysis?
Answer: where diaphysis and epiphysis meet
●● Bones grow and mature until what age
Answer: 20-25 years okd
●● What are the three classifications of functional joints?
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS
COMPLETE STUDY GUIDE
●● What is arthrology?
Answer: study of joints
●● How many bones make up the axial skeleton
Answer: 80
●● How many bones make up the appendicular skeleton
Answer: 126
●● What do long bones consist of?
Answer: A body and two ends or extremities
●● The body or shaft of a long bone contains _______
Answer: Thicker layer of compact bone
●● Where is spongy bone found?
Answer: Inside the shell of compact bone
,●● TRUE OR FALSE : the body of a long bone is hollow.
Answer: TRUE
●● What is hyaline?
Answer: Glassy or clear cartilage
●● What is the periosteum?
Answer: Essential for bone growth, repair and nutrition
●● What are short bones?
Answer: cuboidal shape wrist and ankles.
●● What do short bones consist of?
Answer: Cancellous tissues with a thin outer covering of compact bone.
●● How many carpel bones are there?
Answer: 8
●● How many tarsal bones are there?
Answer: 7
,●● What do flat bones consist of?
Answer: two plates of compact bone with cancellous bone and bone
marrow between them
●● What are examples of flat bones
Answer: Calvaria, sternum, ribs, scapulae
●● What are irregular bones?
Answer: Peculiar shapes that are lumped together
●● What are examples of irregular bones?
Answer: vertebrae, facial bones, pelvis, base of cranium
●● What is ossification?
Answer: process of bone formation
●● Where are red blood cells produced?
Answer: red bone marrow of some flat and irregular bones
●● What is intramembranous ossification?
Answer: Bone replaces membranes. Occurs rapidly
, ●● What is endochondral ossification?
Answer: Bone replaced cartilage. Occurs slowly
●● Where does endochondral ossification occur?
Answer: long bones
●● The primary center of ossification
Answer: diaphysis
●● secondary center of ossification
Answer: epiphysis
●● Where do epiphyses appear first
Answer: Distal femur and proximal tibia
●● What is the metaphysis?
Answer: where diaphysis and epiphysis meet
●● Bones grow and mature until what age
Answer: 20-25 years okd
●● What are the three classifications of functional joints?
