Skeletal and Muscular System

All options above are types of synarthrosis joint. Hence, this is the correct answer.

Hyoid is only distantly articulated to other bones by muscles or ligaments.

It is not related with human skeletal system. All other options are types of sutures.

All are types of joints. Hence, this option is correct.

Cuboid is a tarsal bone.

Tendons are dense connective tissues that connect skeletal muscles to bones, transmitting muscle forces to produce movement. Ligaments connect bones to other bones, providing joint stability. Capillaries are blood vessels, and cartilage is flexible connective tissue - neither connects muscle to bone.

Statement 1 is correct. The human body is supported by a framework of bones, called skeleton. The skeleton consists of 206 bones. Statement 2 is also correct. Cartilages are found between two or more bones. They prevent bones from rubbing against each other.

It is the shortest bone of our body and is present in the middle ear.

There are 3 small bones present in the middle ear, namely malleus, incus and stapes.

The floor of the temporal fossa is formed by the frontal and parietal bones, the greater wing of the sphenoid and the squamous part of the temporal bones. All four bones meet on each side at an H-shaped junction of sutures termed as the pterion.

Definition: Composite muscles are those, whose functions are regarded the same in terms of skeletal structure and muscle arrangement condition, as a single muscle model, e.g. vastus intermedius, lateralis and medialis working with rectus femoris on the knee joint for its extension.

Synovial joints are called diarthroses with few exceptions (the temporomandibular joint and those involving the clavicles, which have intervening fibrocartilaginous discs). They occur between the ends or other defined surfaces of endochondral bones.

When a jaw muscle contracts in the absence of a restraint, the mandible is pulled in the direction of the shortening muscle. The lateral pterygoids are each capable of exerting about 160 N force, a total of 320 N, and yet less than 5% of this is used to protrude or open the jaw.

At the epiphyseal growth plate (physes) new bone growth occurs by the process of enchondral ossification, i.e. ossification of proliferating cartilage. This process sequentially involves proliferation and hypertrophy of chondrocytes, their calcification and vascular invasion. Replacement of red bone marrow with the white marrow is not seen.

Cartilaginous joints are themselves classified into synchondroses (primary cartilaginous joints) and symphyses (secondary cartilaginous joints). When fully formed, each group shares common features and also has distinctive structural and functional features. The terms primary and secondary are only useful in the instances of certain symphyses which, developmentally, are preceded by synchondroses within which further differentiation occurs.