The everyday name and the proper one
Every bone has a name a doctor uses, mostly Latin, and many have an everyday one too. The wheel shows the everyday name; each spin asks for the anatomical one. Press SPIN!:
Your score
Score, In a row and Best run are kept beside the wheel. Start again puts the score back to zero:
Four parts of the skeleton
The head and body, the arms, the legs and the three tiny bones of the ear – the smallest bones in the body. Switch them on and off:
Facts to go with them
- An adult has 206 bones; a newborn about 300, which grow together.
- The femur is the longest and strongest bone.
- The stapes, in the ear, is the smallest – about 3 millimetres.
- More than half of all the bones are in the hands and the feet.
How to learn them
- Start with one group.
- Open Options and tick Take the ones I got right off the wheel.
- Spin until the wheel is empty – what is left at the end is what you do not know yet.