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20 Cards in this Set
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The bones of the body may be classified into four principle types on the basis of shape.
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true.
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Spongy bone makes up most of the bone tissue of short, flat, and irregular shaped bones.
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true.
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Spongy (cancellous) bone contains true osteons.
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false.
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The zygomatic bone are commonly called the ankle bone.
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false
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There are nine processes that arise from the vertebral arch.
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false.
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Before the sacral and the coccygeal vertebrae are fused, there are 33 vertebre.
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true.
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Bones are where white blood cells are produced.
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true.
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Short bones are usually flat.
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false.
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The site where bone growth in lenth occurs.
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epiphyseal plate.
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What is spongy (cancellous) bone tissue?
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bone tissue that consist of an irregular latticework of thin plates of bone
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Prominent portion of the base of the cranium.
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occiptal
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Light. spongy bone in between the orbits.
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ethmoid.
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The keystone of the skull.
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sphenoid.
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The membrane around the surface of the bone.
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periosteum.
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Spongy bone contains.
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trabecule.
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_______ bones" (AKA wormian bones) are small bones in the cranium between the joint (sutures).
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sutural.
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Articular cartilage covers empiphysis at a _______.
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joint.
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A _______ is a depression in or on a bone.
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fossa.
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______ is a lateral bending of the vertebral column.
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scoliosis.
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The diapysis is covered by ______.
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periosteum.
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