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The Skeletal System
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Axial Skeleton
The axial skeleton forms the central axis of the body. It consists of the skull, the vertebral column, the ribs and the sternum.
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Bone Marrow
Bone marrow is the tissue comprising the center of large bones. It is the place where new blood cells are produced.
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Carpal Bones
The 8 short bones that make up your wrists
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Cartilage
Cartilage is a type of dense connective tissue.
Cartilage is found in the joints, the rib cage, the ear, the nose, in the throat and between intervertebral disks
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Clavicle
The clavicle is the collar bone
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Coccyx
The coccyx is the bottom tip of the sacrum
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Cranium•The brain and surrounding skull
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Diaphragm
•a shelf of muscle extending across the bottom of the ribcage.
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FemurThis is the
longest bone in your body. It is located on
your upper leg.
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FibulaThis is the
smaller bone on your lower leg.
It lays on the outside.
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Floating Ribs
The last two sets of ribs on your ribcage. They are not connected to the sternum.
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Hard Palate
This bone makes up the roof of your mouth
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Hinge Joint
The hinge joint allows bones to move back and forth, and is found in your elbow and knee. It allows bones to move like a hinge in a door
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Humerus
This is the bone that makes up
your upper arm.
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Joints
The place where two or more bones come together is called a joint
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Ligaments
The bones at a joint are held together by strong bands of tissue called ligaments which allow the bones to move
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Mandible
The lower part of your
jaw
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MetatarsalsThe long bones in your foot.
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Ossification
Ossification is the process of bone formation, in which connective tissues, such as cartilage are turned to bone or bone-like tissue
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Patella
Your Kneecap
OUCH!!!
That’s a nail
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Phalanges
Includes your
fingers and toes
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Radius
One of the two bones in your lower arm. This bone is
always found on the thumb side of the arm.
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Ribs
Ribs form a protective barrier around your heart
and lungs.
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Sacrum
Sits at the bottom of your spinal cord in between the sides of the pelvis.
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Scapula
Your Shoulder Blades
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SternumThe Sternum connects your ribs together
in the front of the chest.
The bottom tip of the
sternum is called the xyphoid process.
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Stirrup BoneThis is the smallest bone in the human body
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Tibia
Your Shin bone
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Ulna
The other bone in your lower arm.
Opposite the radius.
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Vertebrae
Each one of the disks in the spinal column.