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4 bone types are |
Long, short, flat or regular |
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Long bones have |
Elongated and have expanded ends (femur) |
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Short bones are |
Cube like (wrist bones) |
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Sesamoid bones |
Develop in tendons (patella) |
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Flat bones are |
Plate like witty broad surfaces (scapula) |
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Irregular bones have |
A variety of shapes (vertebrae) |
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Epiphyses are |
Expanded ends off bones that form joints with adjacent bones |
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Articular cartilage is also known as |
Hyaline cartilage |
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Articular cartilage covers what? |
the ends of joints |
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Diaphysis is |
The shaft of the bone |
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What type of bone makes up the outside of the diaphysis? |
Compact and spongy bone |
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Periosteum covers |
The bone and is continuous with ligaments and tendons |
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Medullary cavity is |
Lined with endosteum and filled with marrow |
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Bone cells are called |
Osteocytes |
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Bone cells are located in |
Lacunae that lie in concentric circles around central canals |
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Canaliculi are |
Passageways in the matrix where osteocytes pass nutrients and wastes back and forth |
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Extracellular material consists of |
Collagen and in organic salts |
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The 2 types of bone are |
Compact and spongy bone |
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What is organized in osteons
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blood vessels and nerve fibers
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what direction do the central canals extend through?
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longitudinally
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compact bone is found in
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long bones of arms and legs
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trabeculae is
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thin bony plates
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spongy bone is found in
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the skull, ribs, vertebrae and sternum
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osteoblasts are cells that |
deposit bony tissue (cartilage) around themselves
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lacunae are
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little compartments |
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The periosteum is
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the outer covering of the bone
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endochondral bone formation first develops as
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hyaline cartilage models that are then replaced by bone
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what is cartilage tissue invaded by?
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blood vessels and osteoblasts |
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A band of hyaline cartilage is called |
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what do osteoclasts do? |
break down calcified matrix |
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what do osteoblasts do? |
deposit bone in place of calcified cartilage |
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the length of bones increase because of the
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epiphyseal plates |
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the thickness of bones increase because of |
intramembranous ossification |
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What happens to the epiphyseal plate at adult hood?
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ossifies
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What do bones support?
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give shape to head, face thorax and limbs. pelvis and lower limbs provide support for bodies weight
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what to bones protect?
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the eyes, ears and brain, rib cage and shoulder girdle protect the heart and lungs |
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how do bones play in movement?
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blood cells form through
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hematopoiesis in the yolk sac
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red marrow is found in |
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red marrow functions to
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form red blood cells, white blood cells and platelets |
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yellow marrow functions to |
store fat
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the axial skeleton consists of
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skull, hyoid bone, vertebral column and thorax |
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the appendicular skeleton consists of |
pectoral girdle, upper limbs, pelvic girdle and lower limbs |
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what are the 8 cranial bones |
frontal, 2 parietal, occipital, 2 temporal, sphenoid and ethmoid
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the opening of the ear is called
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external acoustic meatus |
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what are the 14 facial bones |
2 maxillae, 2 palatine, 2 zygomatic, 2 lacrimal, 2 nasal, vomer, 2 inferior nasal conchae and mandible |
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zygomatic makes up the
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vomer and ethmoid bones make up the
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nasal septum |
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maxillae and palatine make up the |
hard palate |
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what are fontanels |
the soft spot on a babies head |
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what is the drum shaped part of the vertebrae called that supports the weight of the head |
body |
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what are the 2 lateral processes called? |
transverse process and superior and inferior articular processes |
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what are the functions of the lateral processes |
bear cartilage covered facets b which each vertebra is joined to the one above and below it
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the name of the dorsal process is
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dorsal spinous process |
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the top 2 vertebrae are the |
atlas and axis |
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how is the cervical vertebrae different from the others |
have transverse formina |
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how many lumbar vertebrae are there |
e |
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coccyx is the |
tailbone |
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the bones in the thoracic cage are the
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ribs, thoracic vertebrae, and sternum |
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how many true pairs of ribs are there
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7 |
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how many false ribs are there |
5 |
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the sternum is made if the
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manubrium, body and xiphoid process |
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the clavicle has a what shape |
s shape
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the spine divides the
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scapula (shoulder blades) |
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the glenoid cavities articulates with the
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humerus |
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where is the head of the humerus |
in the shoulder blades (scapula) |
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the 2 fossae of the humerus are the
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coronoid and olecranon |
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what are the processes near the head of the humerus
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greater and lesser tubercles |
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where is the radius located |
thumb side of the forearm |
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what is the purpose of the flattened head of the radius |
connects with the humerus to allow the radius to rotate |
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what does the radius contain |
the radial tuberosity and styloid processes |
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what is the name of the notch on the ulna
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styloid process |
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what is unusual about the location of the head of the ulna
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it is upside down (distal) |
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how many carpal bones are in the wrist
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8 |
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how many metacarpals are in the hand |
5 |
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what are the bones in the fingers called |
phalanges |
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how many bones does each finger have |
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how many bones does the thumb have |
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what does the pelvic girdle consist of
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2 coxal bones and the sacrum |
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what does the pelvic girdle support |
the trunk of the body on the lower limbs |
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the largest portion of the coxal bone is the |
ilium |
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the ilium
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flares outward, lateral to the groin and provides attachments for ligaments and muscles |
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what shape is the ischium
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L shaped |