Essays on Skeleton

Skeleton Please see labelled diagram attached Examples of long bones are the femur, ulna, tibia, metacarpals and humerus. They provide structure, mobility, strength and they are hard and dense. The long, slightly curved shaft and two epiphyses which are wider than the shaft provide the…

State the division of the skeleton The skeleton is divided into axial and appendicular parts Describe The Structure of a long bone Provides strength with a minimum of additional mass Draw a diagram of the human elbow including cartilage, synovial fluid, tendons, ligaments, named bones…

In this article “What our ancestor’s fossils does not tell us” by Chet Raymo discusses the skeleton that they can tell us many things but not everything about them. He discusses The Nariokotome Homo erectus Skeleton, edited by Alan Walker and Richard Leakey. It was…

Lack of cartilage is a leading cause for aching knees and joints. The solution for many years now has been too either replace the joint or fuse the bones together. Both solutions are pricy, painful, and un-effective. Recently an alarmingly simple solution has come into…

The mandible is one of the fourteen facial bones in the skull and is also known as the lower jaw and alongside the maxilla helps forms the mouth. Both mandible and maxilla uses movements that opens and closes to help chew food. There are four…

Tibetan Skeleton Dance is a type of Cham dance commonly performed at Monlam, the ten day Tibetan prayer festival beginning on the Tibetan New Year, as well as at cemetery rituals, although these dances are very private and impossible to observe. Cham dance as a…