Skull | Vertebrae and Thoracic cavity | Girdles and Limbs part 1 | Girdles and Limbs part 2 | Reproduction, Articles, and Clinical Applications |
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Sphenoidal Sinus
Accessing a pituitary tumor requires drilling through this structure.
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Atlas and the axis (C1 and C2) ; Quadriplegia
Christopher Reeve damaged these two structures when he fell from his horse (give the scientific names). The resulting condition is called . . .
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Pollex
The scientific name for the digit distal to the thenar eminence.
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Femoral neck
Elderly persons with osteoporosis have an increased risk of fracturing this, which is located medial to the greater trochanter.
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Myometrium
The name of the thick, muscular uterine tunic
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Cribiform Plate
This structure is located laterally to each side of the attachment site for the falx cerebri.
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Jugular/suprasternal notches
The bony structure immediately medial to the clavicular notches
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Interosseous membrane ; median nerve
Crucifixion punctures this fibrous structure and damages this nerve.
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Corpus luteum
The origin of the hormone responsible for increasing the diameter of the true pelvis
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Bricks/blocks fell on her
A woman in one of your articles suffered from paradoxical motion. This was her mechanism of injury.
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Perpendicular plate of the Ethmoid bone and the Vomer bone
The most medial portion of the mucus lined structure responsible for humidifying air is composed of these two bones.
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Anulus fibrosis and nucleus pulposis
Vertebral disks are composed of these two structures.
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Epaulets
The ornamental piece of clothing descended from armor responsible for protecting the most commonly fractured bone of the body.
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Fossa lumbales laterales
The full scientific name for the depressions used to locate a site used or bone marrow biopsies.
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Pes Cavus
Excessively high longitudinal arches results in this
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Fontanells/Fontanels
These features in a fetus are responsible for aiding passage through the true pelvis.
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Floating ribs
The specific name given to the four most inferior structures responsible for protecting thoracic organs.
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Cornoid fossa
The bony feature that accommodates an ulnar protrusion during elbow flexion.
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Fovea
This ligament-connecting depression contains a small artery and is located on one of the bones used to help determine sex in a skeleton
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Greater vestibular glands
The scientific name for the glands homologous to the male Cowper glands
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Maxillary Sinus; crepitus
This is the most commonly infected ciliated structure. A fracture of this structure results in this crackling sound.
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L6 vertebrae
A bone that can become sacralized and increase the risk of herniation or spinal stenosis.
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Colles fracture ; silver fork deformity
The name given to a fracture of the distal antebrachium and the characteristic malformation
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Talus
The distal knob of the non-weight bearing crural bone forms the superolateral articulation with this bone.
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Anencephaly and spina bifida
A woman who suffers from "sway back" can have a child with these two deformities if she does not eat raw vegetables
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