What is the function of the flat bones?
-:- Produce red blood cells; protection of internal organs
Describe the shape of a long bone and what its design allows.
-:- Long and thin, supports body weight and enables movement
Name the five basic bone shapes.
-:- Long, flat, short, irregular, se...
✓ -:- swirl the air as it is breathed in through the nasal passages, helping to warm and
humidify the air before it enters the lower respiratory system
What are the only unpaired bones of the facial skeleton?
✓ -:- mandible and vomer
What bone forms the anterior portion of the hard palate?
✓ -:- maxilla
True or false: A typical spine is completely straight when standing vertically.
✓ -:- False
True or false: The vertebral body is located anteriorly and can be palpated along the surface
of the back.
✓ -:- False: located anteriorly, but it's the spinous processes that can be palpated
The vertebrae fit together to protect the ___, located in the vertebral canal.
✓ -:- spinal cord
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