Bunion, usually caused by ill-fitting shoes, is the painful overgrowth of this bone.
Big toe
Tough band of fibrous connective tissue that connects muscle to bone and is built to withstand tension.
Tendon
The backbone or the spine consists of these many vertebrae.
33
The popular American television series Bones features these two actors in the roles of Special Agent Seeley Booth and Dr. Temperance "Bones" Brennan respectively.
David Boreanaz and Emily Deschanel
Anatomical feature/soft spots on a baby's head which, during birth, enable the bony plates of the skull to flex, allowing the child's head to pass through the birth canal.
Fontanelles
One of the most common injuries in the elderly commonly caused by falling onto a hard surface is the Colles' fracture that affects this body part.
Wrist/hand
Generally used to refer to fibrous tissue that connects bones to other bones.
Ligament
The eight-twelve pairs of ribs are called by this term, as they connect to the sternum indirectly.
False ribs
A baby is born with more than 300 bones but an adult ends up with this number.
206
The fracture to the calcaneal bone, commonly this, is also called lover's fracture or Don Juan fracture and is derived from the fact that a lover may jump from great heights while trying to escape!
Heel bone
The site at which bones meet is called a joint or an articulation. These are the most common type of joints in the body.
Synovial joints
American artist who among others painted what she called the "Pelvis Series" of artworks in the 1940s.
George O'Keeffe
Also called the breastbone, the sternum consists of three parts - the manubrium, the body of sternum, and the xiphoid process. Of these, the body of sternum which is the longest part is also called this - evoking the name of a flower or a Roman fighter.
Gladiolus
Name of the the u-shaped bone located at the root of the tongue and which is one of the few bones of the body that does not join directly to another bone.
Hyoid
Air-filled cavities within the skull bones whose clogging can be prevented by the usage of Neti pots.
Sinuses
Collective term for several different disorders that affect joints - the most common being osteo... common among the old and rheumatoid ..., that usually begins after age 40.
Arthritis
Though several groups used the torture punishment of kneecapping, it has come to be prominently associated with this group who used it in the 1970s and 80s.
IRA
The purported 1912 discovery of fragments of a skull and jawbone in a gravel pit in England resulted in this hoax, the biggest of its type in the field of paleo-anthropology.
Piltdown Man
Very common in fashion models is this facial feature that gives their face a desired symmetric shape.
High cheekbones
The three longest bones.
Femur (thighbone), tibia (shinbone), and fibula (lower leg)
The bones in the fingers and the toes are called these. The singular of this word is also a mass military formation of the ancient Greeks.
Phalanges (phalanx)
Popular board game created by Whit Alexander and Richard Tait in 1998 that involves a variety of skills and has categories called Creative Cat, Data Head, Word Worm, and Star Performer.
Cranium
The hip bone in essence consists of three separate bones - the ischium, the pubis, and this, which is also another name for the ancient city of Troy.
Ilium
We have these many pairs of ribs, with the first seven pairs being called the true set.
12 pairs (24 ribs)
Skull and Bones is a secret society at this Ivy League school.
Yale
The predominant cause of rickets disease whose signs are bone deformity is the deficiency of this substance.
Vitamin D
By far the the most common orthopedic procedure is this operation in which this body part is replaced by a prosthetic implant.
Hip joint
Tennis elbow is one type of this affliction that results when the sac that reduces bone friction is inflamed.
Bursitis
Super Bowl winning quarterback of the Redskins who suffered bone injury on live television; the incident has since been voted the "Most Shocking Moment in NFL History" by football followers.
Joe Theismann
The 4 fused vertebrae at the bottom of the spine are collectively called this, also called a tailbone. The name comes from its resemblance to a cuckoo bird's beak.
Coccyx
This icon called the appendage of 'the pelvis' to his name as "one of the most childish expressions I ever heard, comin' from an adult."
Elvis Presley
The only bone of the skull that remains unfixed and is linked to the structure at two joints.
Mandible (lower jaw)
This phrase is used to refer to the two lowermost rib pairs (the eleventh and twelfth) because they are attached only to the vertebrae and not to the sternum.
Floating ribs
If osteocytes help maintain healthy bones and osteoclasts help reabsorb bone tissues, these are the cells that calcify and make bones. Boom!
Osteoblasts
Fill-in the missing word and number: cervical(7), thoracic(12), ..., sacrum(5), coccyx(4)
Lumbar(5) - vertebrae
This type of joint of which the shoulder and hip are examples gives the widest range of movement.
Ball-and-socket
If Alice Sebold's The Lovely Bones deals with the death of a teenage girl and the aftermath, this novel of Stephen King deals with an author who suffers from writer's block after the death of his wife.
Bag of Bones