(FIRST IS THE OUTLINE FROM MS. HATFIELD AND BELOW THE LINE ARE MY OWN NOTES (BEST IF USED TOGETHER)) Chapter 7 : The Skeletal System Includes: Skull, Hyoid, Auditory Ossicles, Vertebral Column, and the Thorax Includes: Pectoral, Upper Limbs, Pelvic Girdle, and the Lower Lombs Bone Surface Markings Processes: Projections or outgrowths that either help form joints or serve as attachment points for connective tissue * Know the table 7.2 * Skull Also provide attachment for some muscles that produce facial expressions Vertebral Column Physiology- Total number: Cervical Thoracic Lumbar Sacral Coccygeal Intervertebral discs: Characteristics of a Typical Vertebrae- Body- Vertebral arch- Processes- spinous- Facets- 2. superior Cervical Vertebrae: Number: Special characteristics: Special movements: Thoracic Vertebrae Number: Special characteristics: Special movements: Lumbar Vertebrae Number: Special characteristics: Special movements: Sacrum Number: Special characteristics: Special movements: Coccyx- Number: Special characteristics: Special movements: _________________________________________________________________________________________________ Divisions of the Skeletal System
- The bones of adults are grouped into two main categories:
- Axial
- Appendicular
- Axial
- The girdle connect the limbs of the appendicular to the axial bones
Note: Functionally the ossicles in the ear are not a part of the axial, but are included for convenience
Types of Bones
- All bones can be classified into five main types based on shape
- Long: Curved for strength
- Curve absorbs the stress of the bodies weight at several different points (like an arch)
- If bones were straight the weight would not be even distributed and would be more easily fracture
- Curve absorbs the stress of the bodies weight at several different points (like an arch)
- Short
- Flat: Afford more protection and provide extensive areas for muscle attachment
- Irregular: Cannot be grouped into any other areas
- Sesamoid: Develop in certain tendons where there is considerable friction, tension, and physical stress
- Vary in number from person to person
- Not completely ossified
- Protect tendons from excessive wear and tear
- Often change the direction of pull of a tendon, improve mechanical advantage at a joint
- Vary in number from person to person
- Long: Curved for strength
- There is one other type of bone that is classified by location rather than shape
- Sutural bone
- Small bones located in sutures (immovable joints) between cranial bones
- Small bones located in sutures (immovable joints) between cranial bones
Bone Surface Markings
- Sutural bone
- Bones have surface markings: structural features adapted for specific functions
- Most not present at birth, but tension causes them
- Most not present at birth, but tension causes them
- Two major types of surface markings
- Depressions and openings
- Processes
Skull
- Depressions and openings
- Has 22 bones
- Rests of superior end of the vertebral column
- The bones of the skull are grouped into two categories:
- Cranial bones:
- Frontal bone, two parietal bones, two temporal bones, the occipital bone, and sphenoid bone, and the ethmoid bone
- Frontal bone, two parietal bones, two temporal bones, the occipital bone, and sphenoid bone, and the ethmoid bone
- Facial bones:
- Two nasal bones, two maxillae, two zygomatic bones, the mindible, two lacrimal bones, two palatine bones, two inferior nasal conache, and the vomer
- Two nasal bones, two maxillae, two zygomatic bones, the mindible, two lacrimal bones, two palatine bones, two inferior nasal conache, and the vomer
General Features and Function
- Cranial bones:
- Also forms smaller cranial cavities
- Certain skull bones contain cavities called paranasal sinuses that are linked with mucous membranes and open into the nasal cavity
- Other than the auditory ossicles the mandible is the only movable bone of the skull
Cranial Bones
Frontal Bone
- Frontal bone
- Forms forehead, roof of orbits, ad most of the anterior part of the cranial floor
- Forms forehead, roof of orbits, ad most of the anterior part of the cranial floor