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ORTHOPAEDIC TECHNOLOGIST
OSTEOCYTE - Answer-mature osteoblasts
OSTEOBLAST - Answer-Bone forming cells
OSTEOCLAST - Answer-cells that break down bone minerals. Re-sorbs mineralized bone
Anatomical Position - Answer-standing upright, head and eyes facing forward, feet together or slightly
apart, palms facing anteriorly, thumbs pointing outward
What types of bones are there? - Answer-Long bones, Short Bones, Flat Bones, Irregular bones, and
Sesamoid bones
What is the shaft of a long bone called? - Answer-Diaphysis
What is the end of a long bone called? - Answer-Epiphyses
How many facial bones are there? - Answer-14
, What type of bones are facial and vertebral bones - Answer-Irregular
What does the vertebral column protect? - Answer-Spinal cord
How many Vertebrae are in the spinal column? - Answer-33
How many sections(regions) is the spinal column broken into? - Answer-5 Cervical, thoracic, lumbar,
sacrum, and coccyx
how many vertebrae are in the Cervical spine? - Answer-7
How many vertebrae are in the Thoracic spine? - Answer-12
How many vertebrae are in the Lumbar spine? - Answer-5
How many vertebrae are in the Sacrum? - Answer-5 which fuse when adulthood is reached
How many vertebrae are in the Coccyx? - Answer-4 fused vertebrae
Which bones make up the Pectoral girdle - Answer-Clavicle and Scapula
What two points does the clavicle attach to - Answer-Acromion process and the manubrium of the
sternum
What is the scapula commonly called - Answer-shoulder blade
ORTHOPAEDIC TECHNOLOGIST
OSTEOCYTE - Answer-mature osteoblasts
OSTEOBLAST - Answer-Bone forming cells
OSTEOCLAST - Answer-cells that break down bone minerals. Re-sorbs mineralized bone
Anatomical Position - Answer-standing upright, head and eyes facing forward, feet together or slightly
apart, palms facing anteriorly, thumbs pointing outward
What types of bones are there? - Answer-Long bones, Short Bones, Flat Bones, Irregular bones, and
Sesamoid bones
What is the shaft of a long bone called? - Answer-Diaphysis
What is the end of a long bone called? - Answer-Epiphyses
How many facial bones are there? - Answer-14
, What type of bones are facial and vertebral bones - Answer-Irregular
What does the vertebral column protect? - Answer-Spinal cord
How many Vertebrae are in the spinal column? - Answer-33
How many sections(regions) is the spinal column broken into? - Answer-5 Cervical, thoracic, lumbar,
sacrum, and coccyx
how many vertebrae are in the Cervical spine? - Answer-7
How many vertebrae are in the Thoracic spine? - Answer-12
How many vertebrae are in the Lumbar spine? - Answer-5
How many vertebrae are in the Sacrum? - Answer-5 which fuse when adulthood is reached
How many vertebrae are in the Coccyx? - Answer-4 fused vertebrae
Which bones make up the Pectoral girdle - Answer-Clavicle and Scapula
What two points does the clavicle attach to - Answer-Acromion process and the manubrium of the
sternum
What is the scapula commonly called - Answer-shoulder blade
