NUR 300 Musculoskeletal
- what are specialized forms of connective tissue
Answer bone and cartilage
- what are places of union of two or more bones
Answer joints, or articulations
- what are non-synovial joints
Answer bones united by fibrous tissue or cartilage
- what are two types of non-synovial joints
- what are synovial joints
Answer 1.Immovable, for example, sutures in skull 2.Slightly movable, for example, vertebrae
Answer cavity filled with synovial fluid
- what do synovial joints do
Answer help muscles and tendons glide smoothly over bone
- what does cartilage do
Answer cushions bones and gives smooth surface to facilitate movement 1 / 3
- structure of a synovial joint
Answer
- muscles account for % to % of body's weight and contract to produce
movement
Answer 40-50% of body weight
- three types of muscles
Answer skeletal, smooth, cardiac
- how is skeletal muscle controlled
Answer under conscious control
- how are skeletal muscle attached to bone
Answer tendon
- each skeletal muscle is composed of what
Answer bundles of muscle fibers
- skeletal muscle movements
Answer Flexion Extension
Abduction Adduction Pronation Supination Circumduction Inversion Eversion Rotation Protraction Retraction Elevation Depression
- temporomandibular joint 2 / 3
Answer connection on either side of the head between the temporal bone of the skull and mandibular bone of the jaw
- what does the temporomandibular joint allow
Answer permits jaw functioning of speaking and chewing
- three motions of the TMJ
- Hinge action to open and close jaws
Answer
- Gliding action for protrusion and retraction
- Gliding for side-to-side movement of lower jaw
- How many cervical vertebrae are there?
Answer 7
- How many throacic vertebrae are there?
Answer 12
- How many lumbar vertebrae are there?
Answer five
- How many sacral vertebrae are there?
- (S1-S5)
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Answer