| Articulations | Landmarks | Trauma and pathology | Nonmetric traits | Bone composition |
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What is the dens?
The axis and the atlas
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What is the femur?
Greater trochanter
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What is a boxer's fracture?
Fracture sometimes caused by punching
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What is suture closure, dental eruption, auricular surface and pubic symphysis, tympanic ring, 4th rib
Ways to age a skeleton (name three)
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What are osteoblasts?
Bone producers
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What is the squamosal suture?
The temporal and parietal
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What is the tibia?
Medial condyle
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What is a false acetabulum?
The femoral head slips from the acetabulum
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What is greater sciatic notch, ventral arc, subpubic concavity, ridge of medial aspect, nuchal crest, mastoid process, supra-orbital margin, supra-orbital ridge, mental eminence
Ways to estimate sex (name three)
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What are osteocytes?
Bone maintainers
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What are costal facets?
The ribs and the thoracic vertebrae
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What is the humerus?
Medial epicondyle
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What is ankylosis?
Sacrum fuses to ilium
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What are wormian bones / Incan bones?
Additional bones caused by suture closure irregularities
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What are osteoclasts?
Bone destructors
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What is the sternal facet?
Sternum and clavicle
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What is the sacrum?
Alae
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What is criba orbitalia and porotic hyperostosis?
Nutritional deficiency causes _____ and _____
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What are vertebrae / ribs?
Bones that one may have less or more of
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What is vitamin D?
Lack of this nutrient causes rickets
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What is the centrum of the first sacral element?
Lumbar 5 and the sacrum
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What is the scapula?
Acromion process
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What is myostitis ossificans?
Ossification of connective tissues
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What are dorsal pits?
Partuition of the coxae during childbirth and other traumas to the pelvis sometimes result in these.
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What is the periosteum and the endosteum?
External and internal surfaces of bone
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