Skeletal System Trivia

1. What type of joint is the shoulder?

From Quiz Shouldering the Burden - a Quiz about Shoulders

Answer: Ball and Socket

The shoulder's extraordinary range of movement is only possible because it is a ball and socket joint. These joints are where the rounded head of one bone fits into a rounded cup shaped depression in another. In the human body the ball and socket joints are in the shoulders, where the head of the humerus fits into the glenoid cavity of the scapula, kept in place by the muscles of the rotator cuff, and in the pelvis, where the head of the femur fits into the acetabulum of the hip bone.

From Quiz Body of Work

Answer: Phalange

Each foot is a complex arrangement of 26 bones. There are fourteen phalanges, which are the toes, five metatarsals which are the long bones and seven tarsal bones which consist of the calcaneus, talus, cuboid, navicular, and the medial, middle, and lateral cuneiforms.

From Quiz Joint Venture

Answer: Shoulder joint

The bones which form the glenohumeral joint are the scapula and the humerus. The clavicle also plays a part in the formation of the shoulder joint. Movements at this joint can be adduction, abduction, flexion, extension, internal rotation and external rotation. The main muscles of the shoulder joint are those that form the rotator cuff; namely the supraspinatus, infraspinatus, teres minor, and subscapularis. Glenohumeral ligaments are among the major supports of this joint. Dislocation of the shoulder is one of the most common orthopedic injuries encountered across all ages.

From Quiz Human Health Medical Terms: Skeletal System

Answer: Hands and feet

Your hands and feet together contain 106 bones. This means over half of the bones in your body are located in your hands and feet.

From Quiz A Skull Quiz

Answer: Zygomatic bone

The face consist of two zygomatic bones, each with a zygomatic arch that is more commonly known as the cheek bone. The zygomatic bones articulate with (join to) the maxillae, sphenoid and frontal and temporal bones.

From Quiz Orthopedic Surgery For Kids!

Answer: Musculoskeletal System

There are many types of injuries under this heading. There are muscular trauma, skeletal trauma, sports injuries, tumors and degenerative diseases. There are two common spellings of this type of medicine: orthopedic and the original spelling of orthopaedic.

From Quiz Bones With Amnesia

Answer: Scapula

The scapula is located in the upper back and is triangular in shape. The long bone connects both your shoulders to your upper arms.

From Quiz Dead-Heads

Answer: Cranium

The cranium is the top part of the skull, made of several plate bones that encase the brain. The cranium, also known as the braincase, largely serves to protect the brain, and does not have much movement between the bones.

From Quiz Name That Bone

Answer: femur

The femur is also the heaviest bone in the body. The length of the femur is about 26% of a human's height, which is useful in anthropology when trying to give an estimate of a person's height from their skeleton.

From Quiz Nice Bones in a Joint Like This

Answer: ball-and-socket joint

The ball-and-socket joint (sometimes called a "universal joint") allows us to swing our arms in circles and move them in all directions. The hip is also a ball-and-socket joint, although it does not move as freely as the shoulder. In a ball-and-socket joint, the rounded end of one bone fits smoothly into a matching indentation in another bone.

From Quiz Holes in Your Head

Answer: mental foramen

The mental foramen allows blood vessels and nerves to supply blood to the lips and surrounding area.

From Quiz Bones, Bones and More Bones

Answer: Proximal and distal phalanges

Each thumb has two bones. One of the bones (distal phalange) goes from the tip of the thumb to the knuckle. The other bone (proximal phalange) goes from the knuckle to the base of the thumb.

From Quiz Bones of the Human Body

Answer: Osteoprogenitor cells

Osteoprogenitor cells are found in the periosteum and bone marrow.

From Quiz All About Knees

Answer: Femur, patella and tibia

The femur is the upper bone of your leg, the part of your thigh. The patella is a small bone in the knee joint, and the tibia joins from the bottom. Here we have the fabulous joint! Question created by AW3404.

From Quiz Bones Are Our Levers And Pulleys

Answer: Fatigue fracture

A fatigue fracture is a small hairline fracture. It is due to constant stress being placed on a bone, rather than one major blow. It may occur after jogging, hiking, standing or even marching. There is usually pain and tenderness at the place where the fracture occurs.

From Quiz It's All About Bones

Answer: appendicular skeleton

Along with the humerus, the appendicular skeleton is composed of the remaining bones of the arms as well as the legs, the pectoral girdle (scapula and clavicle) and the pelvic girdle (hips). The axial skeleton is the skeleton's center which includes the cranium, the vertebral column, ribs, sternum and hyoid bone.

From Quiz Shouldering the Burden - a Quiz about Shoulders

Answer: 1893

In 1893, a French surgeon named Jules Péan attempted to replace part of a shoulder affected by tuberculosis. His patient was a baker, and the prosthesis was made from rubber and platinum.The new joint lasted about two years and greatly improved the patient's range of movement, but infection set in and it had to be removed. The development of modern shoulder replacements didn't begin until the 1950s. The operation became more common from the 1970s onwards, but it wasn't until the 1990s that they became really successful, when techniques were improved.

From Quiz Body of Work

Answer: Three

The foot, with regards to bones, is divided into three parts: the hindfoot, which consists of two tarsal bones, the talus, and the calcaneus, the midfoot consisting of five tarsal bones, and the forefoot consisting of the metatarsals and the phalanges.

From Quiz Your Skeletal System

Answer: Joint

Joints allow bones to move in different ways. There are four types of joints: hinge, ball-and-socket, pivot, and gliding joints. Hinge joints allow forward or backward motion and are found in your knees and elbows. The ball-and-socket joint in your shoulder allows you to swing your arm freely in a circle. Pivot joints have two bones rotating around one another. One example is your neck. Gliding joints allow one bone to slide over another and are found in your wrists and ankles.

From Quiz Joint Venture

Answer: Ilium

It is called the sacroiliac joint (SIJ). The sacrum is at the lower end of the vertebral column while the ilium is the largest bone of the pelvis. Each human has two sacroiliac joints. Some of the main ligaments of this joint are the anterior and posterior sacroiliac ligaments, the interosseous sacroiliac ligament and the sacrospinous ligament. There are not many movements that this joint can produce and its main function is shock absorption. Sacroiliac joint dysfunction is a common disorder characterized by pain.

From Quiz Human Health Medical Terms: Skeletal System

Answer: Stores fat

Yellow bone marrow is a storage area of fat (lipids). At birth most of the bone marrow is red, but with age, more and more of the red bone marrow is converted to yellow bone marrow. About 50% of adult bone marrow is yellow.

From Quiz Dead-Heads

Answer: Mandible

The mandible is the lower jaw, and joined with the cranium, they form the skull. The mandible joins the cranium on either side at the temporomandibular joints.

From Quiz Name That Bone

Answer: radius

The two bones in the forearm are the radius and the ulna. The radius is on the thumb side of the arm, and the ulna is on the pinky side of the arm. "Radius" in Latin means "ray".

From Quiz Nice Bones in a Joint Like This

Answer: hinge joint

Each of the hinge joints in the human body is more complex than a door hinge, but the same principle applies. With the help of muscles, tendons, and ligaments, hinge joints act as simple machines, like levers. Unlike a ball-and-socket joint, which can move in circles and in many directions, a hinge joint only moves back and forth in one direction. Ellipsoidal joints (also called condyloid joints) can move in two planes and are found in the wrists and ankles. There are hinge joints in the phalanges (fingers and toes), but the word "phalanges" refers to the finger and toe bones, not a type of joint.

From Quiz Head Over Heels

Answer: Lacrimal bones

There is a mnemonic phrase that is used to remember the facial bones: Virgil Can Not Make My Pet Zebra Laugh. That translates as: 1 Vomer (hard to describe location - articulates with the sphenoid, the ethmoid, the palatine bones, and the maxillary bones) 2 Conchae (inferior nasal turbinate) 2 Nasal bones (the 'bridge' of the nose) 2 Maxilla (upper jawbones) 1 Mandible (lower jawbone) 2 Palatine bones (between maxilla and sphenoid bones) 2 Zygomatic bones (cheekbones) 2 Lacrimal bones (front part of orbital cavity behind nasal bones) Another fourteen described - that makes 28 of 206! (178 to go)

From Quiz Holes in Your Head

Answer: supraorbital foramen

The supraorbital foramen allows for the passage of the the supraorbial nerve, artery, and vein.

From Quiz Bones, Bones and More Bones

Answer: Skull

The ethmoid bone is located at the roof of the nose and separates the nasal cavity from the brain. It is one of the bones that make up the orbit of the eye. The skull protects the brain from being easily damaged.

From Quiz Foot Fetish?

Answer: Hallux

The big toe is really called the hallux. It is sometimes referred to as the great toe and even as the thumb toe. It is the largest toe on the foot and is counted as digit #1 on the foot. Many people can suffer from hallux valgus, which is more commonly known as bunions. It is an abnormal amount of bone or tissue around the joint at the base of the big toe. The talus is the lower part of the ankle joint, the calcaneus is the heel bone, and the navicular bone is a boat shaped bone in the foot.

From Quiz Bones Are Our Levers And Pulleys

Answer: Periosteum

The outside of bone consists of two layers of connective tissue. The first outer layer has blood vessels and nerves that nourish the bone. The second layer is the one that attaches the periosteum to the bone itself.

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