WVU EXPH-240 Unit 2 Vocabulary Questions With 100% Correct Answers!!

The skeleton... (4 functions) - Supports and shapes the body, Protects tissues and organs, Stores calcium, phosphorus, and lipids, and Produces certain blood cells within the red bone marrow The skeletal muscles...(4 functions) - Produce body movement, Maintain posture and body position, Support soft tissues, and Maintain body heat Orthopedics - the study and treatment of the musculoskeletal system ankyl/o - crooked or stiff arthr/o, articul/o - joint brachi/o - arm cervic/o - neck chondr/o - cartilage (gristle) cost/o - rib crani/o - skull dactyl/o - digit (finger or toe) fasci/o - fascia (a band)femor/o - femur fibr/o - fiber kyph/o - humped-back lei/o - smooth lord/o - bent lumb/o - loin (lower back) muscul/o, my/o, myos/o - muscle myel/o - bone marrow or spinal cord oste/o - bone patell/o - knee cap pelv/i - pelvis (basin) or hip bone radi/o - radius rhabd/o - rod-shaped or striated (skeletal) sarc/o - fleshscoli/o - twisted spondyl/o, vertebr/o - vertebra stern/o - sternum (breastbone) ten/o, tend/o, tendin/o - tendon (to stretch) thorac/o - chest ton/o - tone or tension uln/o - ulna appendicular skeleton - bones of the shoulder girdle, pelvis, and limbs (arms and legs) axial skeleton - bones of the skull, vertebral column, chest (thorax), and hyoid bone (U-shaped bone at the base of the tongue) bone - specialized connective tissue composed of osteocytes (bone cells); forms the skeleton compact bone - tightly solid bone tissue that forms the exterior of bones spongy bone (cancellous bone) - mesh-like bone tissue found in the interior of bones, and surrounding the medullary cavity long bones - elongated bones of the arms and legs short bones - square-shaped bones of the wrists and anklesflat bones - thin, flattened bones of the ribs, shoulder blades (scapulae), pelvis, and skull irregular bones - bones of the vertebrae and face sesamoid bones - round bones found near joints (e.g., the patella) epiphysis - wide ends of a long bone (physis = growth) diaphysis - shaft of a long bone metaphysis - growth zone between the epiphysis and the diaphysis during development of a long bone endosteum - membrane lining the medullary cavity of a bone medullary cavity - cavity within the shaft of the long bones; filled with bone marrow bone marrow - soft connective tissue within the medullary cavity of bones red bone marrow - functions to form red blood cells, some white blood cells, and platelets; found in the cavities of most bones in infants and in the flat bones in adults yellow bone marrow - gradually replaces red bone marrow in adult bones; functions as storage for lipids (fat tissue) and is inactive in the formation of blood cells periosteum - a fibrous, vascular membrane that covers the bone