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| appendicular skeleton (3) |
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| shoulder girdle, pelvic girdle, extremities |
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| skull, hyoid, ribs, sternum, vertebrae, sacrum |
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| coccyx: tailbone; small, triangular bone resembling a shortened tail |
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| cost/o is rib; spondyl/o is vertebra |
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| cuboidal bones: other name, description, examples (2) |
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| cuboidal bones: short bones; roughly cube-shaped bones; carpal and tarsal bones |
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| decompression: removing scar tissue or bone from an area, most commonly the spine, to relieve pressure on nerves or nerve roots |
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| flat bones: description, examples (2) |
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| flat bones: have a flat cross-section; have marrow, but lack a bone marrow cavity; skull and ribs |
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| ilium: large broad bone forming the upper part of each half of the pelvis |
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| ilium forms the upper part of the hip bones, and the ischium forms the lower and back portions of the hip bones |
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| ischium: bone forming the lower and back portion of the hip bone |
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| osteoblast: bone-forming cell |
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| osteochondritis: inflammation of bone and cartilage |
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| osteomyelitis: inflammation of bone and bone marrow |
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| osteopenia: lower than average bone density; osteoporosis: condition resulting in reduction of bone mass |
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| scapula: flat, triangular-shaped bone on the dorsal thorax or back |
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| sesamoid bones: description |
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| sesamoid bones: short bones (shaped like sesame seeds) formed within tendons |
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| spondyl/o is vertebra; cost/o is rib |
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| tubular bones: other name; description, examples (3) |
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| tubular bones: long bones; bones longer than they are wide and found in the limbs; femur, humerus, phalanges |
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| appendicular skeleton (3) |
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| shoulder girdle, pelvic girdle, extremities |
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| skull, hyoid, ribs, sternum, vertebrae, sacrum |
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| coccyx: tailbone; small, triangular bone resembling a shortened tail |
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| cost/o is rib; spondyl/o is vertebra |
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| cuboidal bones: other name, description, examples (2) |
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| cuboidal bones: short bones; roughly cube-shaped bones; carpal and tarsal bones |
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| decompression: removing scar tissue or bone from an area, most commonly the spine, to relieve pressure on nerves or nerve roots |
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| flat bones: description, examples (2) |
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| flat bones: have a flat cross-section; have marrow, but lack a bone marrow cavity; skull and ribs |
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| ilium: large broad bone forming the upper part of each half of the pelvis |
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| ilium forms the upper part of the hip bones, and the ischium forms the lower and back portions of the hip bones |
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| ischium: bone forming the lower and back portion of the hip bone |
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| osteoblast: bone-forming cell |
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| osteochondritis: inflammation of bone and cartilage |
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| osteomyelitis: inflammation of bone and bone marrow |
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| osteopenia: lower than average bone density; osteoporosis: condition resulting in reduction of bone mass |
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| scapula: flat, triangular-shaped bone on the dorsal thorax or back |
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| sesamoid bones: description |
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| sesamoid bones: short bones (shaped like sesame seeds) formed within tendons |
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| spondyl/o is vertebra; cost/o is rib |
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| tubular bones: other name; description, examples (3) |
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| tubular bones: long bones; bones longer than they are wide and found in the limbs; femur, humerus, phalanges |
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