Vocab Skeletal Anatomy

slightly moveable joint

• suture

• amphiarthrosis

• diarthrosis

• synarthrosis

Term used to describe Bone growth in width

• appositional growth

• interstitial growth

• epiphyseal growth

• ossification

Inflammation of the joints

• gomphosis

• bursitis

• arthritis

• hematoma

Surgical replacement of a joint

• arthroplasty

• arthroplasia

• osteoplasia

• osteomalacia

A fibrous sac containing synovial fluid that occurs between bones and muscle tendons to decrease friction during movement

• fontanel

• canaliculi

• synarthrosis

• bursae

Inflammation of the bursa

• callus

• osteopenia

• arthritis

• bursitis

occurs during ossification where calcium salts accumulate in the body tissue.

• calcification

• ossification

• calcitonin

• kyphosis

hormone released by the thyroid gland that helps when the calcium levels are too high in the blood stream.

• calcitonin

• calcitriol

• vitamin C

• calcium

bony healing tissue that forms around bones that are healing

• hematoma

• callus

• bony spur

• granulation tissue

small canal found in bone tissue that runs blood from the central canal to the lacunae

• meatus

• canal

• canaliculi

• lacunae