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Describe 6 locations throughout the body where one notes hyaline cartilage: |
1. Covers bone ends (articular cartilage) 2. Connects ribs to sternum (costal cartilage) 3. Forms the larynx (laryngeal cartilage) 4. Reinforce respiratory tubes (tracheal and bronchial cartilage) 5. Supports external nose (nasal cartilages) 6. Initial skeleton of the fetus |
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Describe the interesting and rather unique location of osetocytes in bone and chondrocytes in cartilage: |
They are both found in lacunae |
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What kind of cartilage is most compressible? |
Fibrocartilage |
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What kind of cartilage is most flexible? |
Elastic |
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What kind of cartilage is most abundant? |
Hyaline |
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What kind of cartilage has the greatest tensile strength? |
Fibrocartilage |
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What kind of cartilage is on the end of a chicken bone? |
Hyaline |
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What kind of cartilage is between vertebrae? |
Fibrocartilage |
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What kind of cartilage connects the two coxae? |
Fibrocartilage |
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Interstitial growth is growth between: |
Cells (chondrocytes) that secrete matrix. |
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Appositional growth is from: |
The outside (perichondrium) |
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Give 3 examples of wrist bones: |
Hamate, Trapezium, and pisiform. |
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Give 3 examples of hand bones: |
Metacarpals, sesamoid, phalanges (distal, middle, and proximal) |
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Give 3 examples of ankle bones: |
Cuboid, navicular, Lateral cuneiform |
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Give 2 examples of foot bones: |
Metatarsals, phalanges. |
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What are the parts of the typical long bone? |
Diaphysis, periosteum, perforating (Sharpey's) fibers, epihpysis, articular cartilage, epihyseal plate, epiphyseal line |
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5 major functions of the skeletal system |
Support, protection of vital organs, blood cell production, calcium storage, movement |
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What is a central (Harvesian) canal? |
Any of the minute tubes that form a network in bone and contain blood vessels. |
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What is a perforating (Volkmann's) canal? |
Any of the small channels in bone that transmit blood vessels from the periosteum into the bone and that lie perpendicular to and communicate with the haversian canals. |
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Is intramembranous ossification part of primary or secondary bone growth? |
Primary |
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Wolff's Law |
The bone in a healthy person or animal will adapt to the loads under which it is placed. |
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Ligaments connect: |
Bone to bone
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Tendons connect: |
Bone to muscle |
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From superior to inferior, name the 3 vertebral areas |
Cervical, thoracic, and lumbar |
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How many vertebrae in cervical region? |
Seven |
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How many vertebrae in thoracic region? |
Twelve |
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How many vertebrae in lumbar region? |
Five |
