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These types of bones have a length greater than width, are hollow.
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Long Bones
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These bones have a length and width that are equal.
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Short Bones
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Bones used as "armor"
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Flat Bones
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Round bones, and everything else
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Irregular Bones
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What type of bone are the sternum, cranium, and scapula?
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Flat
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What are the tarsals and carpals?
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Short
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What are the ribs?
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Flat
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What are the arms and legs?
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Long
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Vertebra, facial bones, patella?
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Irregular
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What are the function of osteoclasts?
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To break down cells in the bone.
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What are the function of osteoblasts?
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To repair bones.
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Name 5 functions of bones
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1. Support
2. Muscle attachment 3. Protection 4. Formation of blood cells 5. Storage of Ca and P. |
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What does the axial skeleton contain?
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skull, spine, ribcage, sternum
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What does the appendicular skeleton contain?
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Pelvis, girdles, scapula, clavicle, arms, legs
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What does the word hemopoiesis mean?
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Blood production
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What type of bone growth is it when bone grows in width?
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Appositional
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What type of bone growth occurs when bones grow from cartilage and causes height increase?
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Endochondral
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In bone growth, cartilage cells ossicify away from the epipyseal plate and form the ____________.
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Epiphyseal line
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What part of the bone is capped with hyelin (articulating) cartilage?
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Epiphysis
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What part of the bone is the end part?
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Epiphysis
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What part of the bone stores yellow marrow (fat)?
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Diaphysis
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What part of the bone is spongy and filled with red bone marrow?
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Epiphysis
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True or false: Red bone marrow produces red blood cells, and yellow marrow produces white blood cells.
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False--Red marrow produces red and white cells.
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What part of the bone is the shaft?
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Diaphysis
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What part of the bone is more compact and is an aversion system?
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Diaphysis
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What does the epiphysis contain that are rods forming a bony wall?
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trabeculae
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What does the term cancellous refer to?
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It has holes
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What separates the diaphysis from the epiphysis?
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the epiphyseal line
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This type of cartilage is smooth, slippery, and bloodless.
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Articular cartilage
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The ____________ is a fibrous, cellular, vascular, and highly sensitive life support sheath for bone, and provides nutrients for blood and bone cells.
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Periosteum
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Cancellous bone contains this type of marrow:
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Red marrow
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This type of bone in the diaphysis consists of repeating patterns of solid bone tissue organized into cencentric layers.
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Compact bone
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The ____________ of the diaphysis lightens bone weight and provides space for marrow.
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Medullary Cavity
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This structure enters the medullary cavity and branches throughout, supplying the shart with nutrients.
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Nutrient Artery
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This type of bone resists the stresses of weight, posture changes and muscular development.
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Cancellous (spongy) bone
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