Skeletal System Quiz Review

What type of fracture is common with osteoporotic bones of older people?

Compression

What kind of tissue is the forerunner of long bones in the embryo?

Hyaline cartilage

As a forensic technician, you assist with the processing of a crime scene containing a skeleton. Relying upon your anatomy background, evaluate the following feature to support your assessment that the Skelton was female. Which answer choice supports your assessment

The bone of the pelvis are light and thin.

Bone growth in the age of 40

appositional growth

From superior to inferior, what is the correct order of the vertebrae?

cervical, thoracic, lumbar

In adults, the function of the yellow marrow is to:

store adipose tissue

functional type of joint with least mobility

synarthrosis

What bones protect the spinal cord?

vertebrae