Sports Medicine Quiz 3

What is an embryo skeleton made of?

Cartilage

The process of incorporating calcium and minerals into cartilage to become bone is known as ___

Ossification

Osteoids provide the ___ and tensile strength required to keep bones from constantly breaking

Flexibility

Mineral salts provide bone ___ and hardness

Strength

What are the 4 steps to repair a broken bone?

1. Hematoma forms

2. Callus forms

3. Callus ossifies

4. Compact bone forms

What are the two major sections of the skeleton?

Axial and appendicular

How many and what bones are in the axial skeleton? Appendicular?

Axial - 80, skull, vertebrae, sternum, ribs

Appendicular - 126, bones in upper and lower extremities

Three structural types of joints?

Fibrous, cartilaginous, synovial

What are the six common joints highly movable?

Ball and socket, hinge, saddle, pivot, gliding/plane, condylar joint

What do tendons connect? ligaments?

Tendon - bone to bone

Ligaments - bone to muscle