Skeletal System Quiz 716 (20 MCQs)

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1. Our bones have to balance their rigidity & hardness with a flexibility component in order to ensure the bone is not too brittle. Which component is most responsible for this elasticity or flexibility?
2. Severe bone pain caused by abnormally shaped red blood cells that obstruct circulation is a symptom of what disease?
3. Bones are alive and can heal.
4. ..... and vitamin D are especially important
5. Osteoblasts
6. Body of a long bone
7. Which bones prostec and support the intestines of the digestive system?
8. Action that are controlled by the spinal cord
9. Projections of spongey bone are known as
10. There are ..... in a baby's bone.
11. This disorder is from a vitamin deficiency and causes soft and weak bones usually in children:
12. What type of joints are at the top of your skull?
13. The ..... is located at each end of the a long bone
14. The 2 bones that make up the lower leg.
15. Allow bones to move in almost any direction
16. Bones of the ankle are called
17. Concentric layers of calcified extracellular matrix making up what you think of as "bone tissue"
18. True or false:Your body has more red marrow when you're younger than when you're older.
19. Which connective tissue is found in between joints for cushioning?
20. Which term means a degenerative disorder that can cause the loss of normal spinal structure and function?