Anatomy - Skeletal System Review Questions
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Axial Skeleton - Skull
 

  1. What bones are separated by the sagittal suture?
  2. What suture runs superior to the squamosal portion of the temporal bone?
  3. What suture separates the frontal and parietal bones?
  4. Where is the stylomastoid foramen located(between what two structures)?
  5. Locate and identify the bones that form the medial surface of the orbit.
  6. What bones form the bridge of the nose? What bones are lateral to these bones?
  7. Find these foramen: ovale, spinosum, and rotundum. What bone contains all these foramen?
  8. Find the foramen lacerum. What bones border this foramen?
  9. Find the palatine and incisive foramen. What bones are each part of? (2 different bones)
  10. What foramen do you see between the occipital bone and the posterio-medial edge of the petrous portion of the temporal bone?
  11. What bones form the roof of the mouth? What bones form the cheekbones?
  12. Find the crista galli. What structure, full of holes, is directly inferior to it? What structure projects inferiorly from this second structure? What bone are all these structures part of?
  13. Find the pterygoid processes. What bone are these part of?
  14. Name the 8 cranial bones and the 14 facial bones.
  15. What is a foramen and what is it for?
  16. What bone is the zygomatic process part of?
  17. What are the 4 parts of the temporal bone?
  18. What bone contains the foramen magnum? What passes through this opening?
  19. Find the occipital condyles. What bone do they articulate with?
  20. Find the sella turcica. What bone is this part of?
  21. What 2 bones contribute to the nasal septum?
  22. What 2 bones support the teeth? What are the sockets from which the teeth project called?
  23. What part of the mandible is the body and which part are the rami? Identify the 2 processes of the mandible.


Axial Skeleton - Vertebrae and Rib Cage
 

  1. Find these foramen: vertebral, intervertebral, transverse. What type of vertebrae must you look at to see ALL these foramen?
  2. Use directional terms to describe where the following are located: spinous process, transverse process, articular processes. Find all these process on a vertebra.
  3. What features on thoracic vertebrae are lacking on other vertebrae?
  4. Find the auricular surfaces on the sacrum. With what do these surfaces articulate?
  5. Note the articular facets on the head and on the tubercle of a rib. With what do each of these different facets articulate?
  6. On what bone do you find the dens ? What head movement does this structure allow?
  7. What 3 bones make up the sternum? Which is most superior? Is the sternum part of the axial or appendicular skeleton?
  8. What is the difference between false and true ribs? How many of each are present in humans?

 

 

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Anatomy - Skeletal System Review Questions

Appendicular Skeleton
 

  1. A cross section through the diaphysis of a long bone would reveal what substance and what space in the center?
  2. Name the 2 ends of the clavicle. With what do these ends each articulate? Which end is medial? Which end contains the conoid tubercle?
  3. Find the spine of the scapula. Is this the posterior or anterior surface? What directional term describes the relationship of the lateral (axillary) border of the scapula to the glenoid cavity? Name the two bony processes of the scapula which are superior to the glenoid cavity.
  4. Find the greater and lesser tubercles of the humerus. Is this the distal or proximal end of the bone? Is the deltoid tuberosity medial or lateral?
  5. What 2 fossa are at the distal end of the humerus? Which fossa is on the posterior surface, which anterior?
  6. Name the 2 rounded,articular surfaces at the distal end of the humerus.
  7. What two structures form the trochlear notch of the ulna? With what does the trochlear notch articulate?
  8. Find the styloid processes on the radius and the ulna. Palpate these on yourself.
  9. What forms the "point" of the elbow?
  10. How many carpal bones are there? You need a goofy way to remember all of their names - try an acronym!
  11. Which carpal is directly proximal to the thumb? Which carpal is the most distal and medial?
  12. What are the 3 parts of a metacarpal? What bone is directly distal to a metacarpal?
  13. How many phalanges make up the thumb? the other fingers?
  14. Name the 3 fused bones which make up an os coxa.
  15. Find the iliac crest. Find and name the 4 spines of the iliac.
  16. Find the ischial spine.Find the greater sciatic notch (superior to the ischial spine) and the lesser sciatic notch(inferior to spine).
  17. Which bones of the os coxae join at the symphysis pubis?
  18. Find the superior and inferior rami of the pubis bone.
  19. Find the linea aspera. Is this the anterior or posterior surface of the shaft of the femur?
  20. What are separated by the intertrochanteral crest(posteriorly) and line (anteriorly)?
  21. Is the patellar surface of the femur anterior or posterior? distal or proximal?
  22. Describe the location of the tibial tuberosity.
  23. What is a malleolus? Name 2 bones on which you find malleoli.
  24. Feel the 2 bony "bumps" on the lateral and medial surfaces of your ankle. What forms these bumps?
  25. Which tarsal bone is the most distal and most lateral?
  26. Which tarsal bone articulates with the tibia to form the ankle joint? Which tarsal bone forms the heel?

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D. Sillman (dys100@psu.edu) 08/23/2004