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Primary and secondary function of skeletal system
1. interactions with muscles involved with movement
2. support and protection
Types of skeletons
1. hdyrostatic
2. external
3. internal
Describe hydrostatic skeleton
1. has to be in fluid filled space
2. bulging; can't be compressed
3. advantage: allows fro motion
4. disadvantage: not a full range of motion
5. coelums, cavities
Describe exoskeleton
1. most have to be shed
2. joints allow more motion
3. during molting, animals stretch to make new cuticle layer larger
Describe internal skeleton
1. grows with organism
2. sponges, deutoerstomes
Bone classifications
1. long
2. short
3. flat
4. irregular
Describe bone: long
longer than they are wide
ex: humorous
Describe bone: short
1. more even in dimensions
2. box like
Describe bone: flat
1. sandwich like
ex: cranium, sternum
Describe bone: irregular
no specific shape b/c of projections
ex: vertebra
Types of joints
1. synarthrosis (not moveable)
2. amphiarthrosis (slight movable)
3. diarthrosis (ball and socket; synovial joints; hinged)
Intramembranous bone formation
1. occur in flat outer bones of skull
2. develop from non cartilage, connective tissue
Endochondral bone development
1. long bones
2. develop from cartilage
3. bone begins to ossify in diaphysis
4. growth between ossified regions
5. eventually, ossified regions fuse