Exam 9: Skeletal System

Match each bone with its corresponding bone marking. -olecranon fossa

In the lower leg,the tibia is larger than the fibula.

The largest of the bones making up the innominate bone is the ischium.

Match each bone with its location. -lower,posterior skull bone

An immovable joint in the skull is called a fontanel.

Match each bone with its location. -cheek bone

There are five pairs of false ribs.

The cribriform plate is part of the sphenoid bone.

Mastoiditis,if untreated,may lead to inflammation of the brain or of its coverings.

Fontanels are immovable joints between skull bones.

A 10-year-old boy came into the emergency room with a painful knee joint.He had full range of motion but was in pain.The attending physician suspected a fracture and ordered an x-ray examination.What was the purpose of the x-ray evaluation? (Do not forget the epiphyseal growth plate.)

The joint connecting the two parietal bones and the frontal bone is called the coronal suture.

The top of the skull is also called the calvaria.

The blunt,cartilaginous lower tip of the sternum is called the xiphoid process.

Infectious material can accumulate in the air space within the mastoid bone because it does not drain into the nose like other sinuses.

The cheek is shaped by the zygomatic bone underlying it.

Mastoiditis is the inflammation of a sinus within which bone(s)?

The axial skeleton consists of _____ bones.

A person with a fractured patella would expect discomfort in the:

The xiphoid process and the manubrium are at opposite ends of the sternum.