Skeletal System Quiz 174 (20 MCQs)

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1. Temporal bones are joined with the parietal bones at the ..... sutures:

Correct Answer: C) Squamous.

2. Which is a bone cell?

Correct Answer: A) Osteocyte.

3. What part of your spinal column do your ribs attach to?

Correct Answer: C) Thoracic.

4. Covers the external surface of the epiphyses and decreases friction at joint surfaces

Correct Answer: D) Articular Cartilage.

5. Which bone cell is responsible for forming new bone?

Correct Answer: A) Osteoblast.

6. Which classification of joint would relate to the knee, hip and shoulder joints?

Correct Answer: A) Synovial.

7. Which type of joint allows the most movement?

Correct Answer: D) Synovial joint.

8. The knobby end of a long bone is called a .....

Correct Answer: A) Ephiphysis.

9. What is A labeling?

Correct Answer: A) Epiphyseal Line.

10. Medical term that means removal of a rib.

Correct Answer: D) Costectomy.

11. In the skull 14 bones form the .....

Correct Answer: A) Face.

12. This type of bone growth starts with a mass of undifferentiated connective tissue near blood vessels.

Correct Answer: B) Intramembranous.

13. Which is not a function of your bones?

Correct Answer: E) Muscle contraction.

14. The hyoid bone is an example of what type of bone?

Correct Answer: D) Sesamoid bone.

15. The appendicular skeleton includes all of the following EXCEPT

Correct Answer: D) Spine.

16. ..... help in the growth and repair of the body

Correct Answer: D) Protein.

17. Freely mobile joints.

Correct Answer: A) Diarthrosis.

18. The vetebral column protects which part of the body?

Correct Answer: C) Spinal Cord.

19. What type of diseases are bone marrow transplants used to treat

Correct Answer: A) Cancers/immune deficiency disease.

20. Orth/o

Correct Answer: C) Straight.