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16 Cards in this Set
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Four parts of skeletal system |
bone, joints, cartilage, ligaments |
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Functions of skeletal system |
supports, protects organs, allows movement, stores minerals and fats, blood cell function |
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head and trunk of the skeleton |
axial skeleton |
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arms and legs of skeleton |
appendicular skeleton |
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bone with many open spaces |
spongy |
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bone tight together |
compact |
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shaft of long bone |
diaphysis (compact) |
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ends of long bone |
epiphysis (spongy) |
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bones are covered with |
periosteum |
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secures the periostuem |
sharpeys fibers |
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arteries |
supply nutrients |
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articular cartilage |
cartilage end of bones |
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Long bones |
compact longer than they are wide shaft with head at both ends femur, humerus |
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Short bone |
spongy cube-shaped carpals, tarsals |
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Flat bone |
thin, flat, curved two thin compact surround 1 spongy skull, ribs, sternum |
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Irregular bone |
irregular shape dont fir in other categories vertebrae, hip bones |
