(FIRST IS THE OUTLINE FROM MS. HATFIELD AND BELOW THE LINE ARE MY OWN NOTES (BEST IF USED TOGETHER))
Chapter 7 : The Skeletal System
- Divisions
- Axial: Consists of bones that lie around the longitudinal axial of the body.
Includes: Skull, Hyoid, Auditory Ossicles, Vertebral Column, and the Thorax
- Appendicular: Consists of the bones that make up the upper and lower limbs and the girdles that connect the limbs to the axial
Includes: Pectoral, Upper Limbs, Pelvic Girdle, and the Lower Lombs
- Girdles: Connect limbs to axial skeleton
- Types of Bones
- Long: Greater length than width, slightly curved for strength
- Consists of shaft and a variable number of extremities
- Mostly compact bone in shaft, spongy at ends
- Consists of shaft and a variable number of extremities
- Short: Somewhat cube shaped, width and length almost equal
- Almost all spongy except at surface
- Almost all spongy except at surface
- Flat: Thin
- Consists of two nearly parallel plates of compact bone tissue enclosing spongy bone tissue
- Consists of two nearly parallel plates of compact bone tissue enclosing spongy bone tissue
- Irregular: Complex shapes
- Vary in amount of spongy and compact bone preasent
- Vary in amount of spongy and compact bone preasent
- Sesamoid:Only a few millimeters in diameter
Bone Surface Markings
- Depressions: Forms joints or allow the passage of soft tissue
Processes: Projections or outgrowths that either help form joints or serve as attachment points for connective tissue
* Know the table 7.2 *
- cleft palate
- cleft lip
Skull
- Function: Protects brain, blood vessels, lymphatic vessels, and nerves through the attachment of their inner surfaces
Also provide attachment for some muscles that produce facial expressions
- Number of Bones Total:
- Cranial: Form the cranial cavity which encloses and protects the brain
- Facial: Forms the face
Vertebral Column
Physiology-
Total number: Cervical
Thoracic
Lumbar
Sacral
Coccygeal
Intervertebral discs:
Characteristics of a Typical Vertebrae-
Body-
Vertebral arch-
Processes-
- transverse-
spinous-
Facets-
- inferior
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:
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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