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Skeletal system
Organisation, shapes, surface markings, structure and development of bones, followed by clinical imaging landmarks.
- 30 explained questions
- 25 flashcards
- 96 estimated course minutes
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What you will learn
- Define the skeletal system, its functions, and its axial and appendicular divisions.
- Classify a bone from its dimensions and name the main surface markings.
- Describe the components of bone and their arrangement in long, short, and flat bones.
- Distinguish the two modes of ossification and the two directions of postnatal growth.
- Recognise the main bone-imaging modalities and identify a fracture.
Course outline
From the whole skeleton to a single bone
An overview of the body axis, limbs, and the levels at which osteology studies the skeleton.
6 min
Definition and functions of the skeletal system
The components of the skeleton, its quantitative importance, and its six functions.
10 min
Axial and appendicular organisation
The contents of the two major divisions of the skeleton and their continuity through the girdles.
10 min
Classifying bones by their dimensions
The criteria that distinguish long, flat, short, and irregular bones.
10 min
Reading bone surface markings
Articular and non-articular eminences and depressions, their shapes, and their functions.
18 min
Bone structure
The four components of bone and their arrangement in long, short, and flat bones.
16 min
Ossification and growth
The onset and two modes of ossification, followed by the two directions of growth after birth.
12 min
Imaging and clinical implications
What the main bone-imaging modalities show and how they document a fracture.
14 min
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