Bones Flash Cards

Front 1

Osteoclasts

Back 1

Carry nutrients and waste to and from blood vessels in the bone

Front 2

Osteoblasts

Back 2

Make new bone and help repair damage

Front 3

Osteocytes

Back 3

Break down bone and help to sculpt and shape it

Front 4

Compact bone

Back 4

In the diaphysis, solid (no spaces)

Front 5

Spongy bone

Back 5

In the epiphysis , has notes that help to leases the weight of the bone

Front 6

Articular Cartilage

Back 6

A layer of hyaline cartilage (a very strong connective tissue) that is on the outside surface of the epiphysis

Front 7

Periosteum

Back 7

Tough fibrous tissue that covers the outside of the bone

Front 8

Epiphysis

Back 8

The end of the bone , articulates (forms a joint) with another bone

Front 9

Diaphysis

Back 9

The shaft of the bone

Front 10

Red marrow

Back 10

Creates red and white blood cells

Front 11

Yellow marrow

Back 11

Contained fat cells

Front 12

Medullary cavity

Back 12

Hollow chamber in the diaphysis

Front 13

Endochondral bone

Back 13

All other bones besides the skull, short masses of hyaline cartilage in the shape of a bone

Front 14

Intramembraneous

Back 14

Flat bones of the skull form between sheet

Front 15

Acetabul-

Back 15

Depression of the Coxa that articulates the head of the femur

Front 16

Ax-

Back 16

Upright portion of the skeleton that supports the head,neck, and trunk

Front 17

-blast

Back 17

Cell that will form bone tissue

Front 18

Carp-

Back 18

Rounded bony process

Front 19

-clast

Back 19

Cell that breaks down bone tissue

Front 20

Condyl-

Back 20

Rounded bony process

Front 21

Corac-

Back 21

Beak like process of the scapula

Front 22

Cribr-

Back 22

Portion of the ethmold bone with many small openings

Front 23

Crist-

Back 23

Bony ridge that projects upwords into the cranial cavity

Front 24

Fov- 

Back 24

Bit in the head of the femur

Front 25

Glen-

Back 25

Depression in the scapula that articulates with the head of the humerus

Front 26

Inter-

Back 26

Structure located between adjacent vertebrae

Front 27

Intra-

Back 27

Bone that forms within sheet like masses of connective tissue

Front 28

Meat-

Back 28

Canal of the Temporel lobe that leads inward to parts of the ear

Front 29

Odont-

Back 29

Tooth like process of the second cervical vertebrae

Front 30

Poie-

Back 30

Process by which blood cells are formed