The Skeleton
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Functions
- Support
- Protection
- Movement/leverage
- Mineral and lipid storage
- Hemopoiesis and storage
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Parts of a bone
- Diaphysis: shaft of the long bone
- Epipyhsis: end parts of the long bone
- Meaphysis: contains growth plate
- Spongy bone: soft inner part
- Compact bone: surrounds the spongy bone; denser
- Medullary cavity: stores bone marrow
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Axial Skeleton
The Skull
- Bones
- Cranium-skull without mandible
- Calvarium-skull cap
- Occipital back and bottom
- Frontal - forehead(brow ridges)
- Temporal - temples
- Parietal-sides of skullc
- Sphenoid - internal, ‘butterfly’
- Ethmoid - behind nose
- Nasals - top of nasal opening
- Zygomatic (& arch) -cheekbones
- Maxilla -upper jaw
- Mandible -lower jaw
- Wormian bones
- Foramen magnum
- Fontanelles: anterior and posterior
- Sutures
- Metopic
- Coronal
- Sagittal
- Lambdoidal
- Cornal
- Squamosal
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Teeth Bones
- Human dental structure: 2123
- Incisors
- Canines
- Premolars
- Molars (deciduous and permanent)
Vertebrae
- Spinous & transverse process
- Vertebral foramen
- Body
- 7 cervical –in neck(transverse foramina)
- 12 thoracic –attach to ribs(rib facets)
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5 lumbar –lower back(large; laterally oriented transverse
processes)
- C1 –atlas
- C2 –axis
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Appendicular skeleton
Pectoral girdle: Scapula& clavicle
Carpals, MetaCarpals, Phalanges (Proximal, intermediate, distal)
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Anterior superior iliac spine (ASIS)& Anterior inferior iliac spine
(AIIS)
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Tarsals, Metatarsals, Phalanges (roximal, intermediate, distal)
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