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What bones are in the AXIAL SKELETON
Skull.
vertebral column.
rib cage.
Long bones include all limb bones except.......?
Patella (kneecap).
tarsals (wrist).
carpals(ankle).
TRUE or FALSE. The main role of the appendicular skeleton, is to protect and support vital organs.
false
What is the main roles of the APPENDICULAR SKELETON?
Locomotion

allows us to manipulate our environment
What type of bone is the PATELLA (kneecap)
Sesamoid bone
What is HEMATOPOIESIS
Blood cell formation
What are the roles of the blood?
Blood cell formation.
fat storage.
supports movement.
What hormone regulates bone formation, but also protect against diabetes mellitus.
Osteocalcin
What is the skeletal system composed of?
Bones
cartilage
joints
ligaments
What is typically surrounded by a layer of irregular connective tissue, called the Perichondrium?
Skeletal cartilages
What is the PERICARDIUM?
A layer of dense irregular connective tissue that surrounds the skeletal cartilages
Is cartilage tissue avascular, or vascular?
Avascular
Where does the nourishment of cartilage tissues come from?
O2(oxygen).
nutrients diffusing from capillaries in the pericardium.
What acts like a girdle to resist outward expansion of the cartilage during compression?
PERICARDIUM
What are the three types of cartilage tissue?
Elastic cartilage
fibrocartilage
hyaline cartilage
Elastic cartilage
Fibrocartilage
hyaline cartilage
What is the white ball
Chondrocyte inside Lacuna
What is the line pointing to?
Elastic fibers
What are the lines pointing to?
Lacuna with chondrocytes inside
What is the arrow pointing to
Collagen fibers
What is the most abundant cartilage type in the human body
hyaline cartilage
What is the line pointing to
Matrix
What does the matrix consist of in hyaline cartilage?
Gelatinous ground substance collagen fibers
What provides elastic support of the external ear and epiglottis?
Elastic cartilage
What type of cartilage composes most of the embryonic skeleton?
hyaline cartilage
What type of cartilage is strong enough to resist compression between the pubic bones and between the vertebrae?
Fibrocartilage
What type of cartilage composes the menisci (cartilaginous discs) of the knee joint?
Fibrocartilage
What type of cartilage composes the articular cartilage covering the ends of long bones in joint cavities?
hyaline cartilage
This cartilage is a smooth surface, helps reduce friction between the articulating bones, and its gelatinous ground substance is a resilient cushion?
hyaline cartilage
What are costal cartilages
Cartilage that connects the ribs to the sternum
What is PAGET'S DISEASE
Enlarged and misshapen bones
What bone disorder that is found mostly in aged individuals result in bones becoming porous and light?
Osteoporosis
What cartilage composes the costal, nasal, and respiratory cartilages?
hyaline cartilage
What covers and lines the surface of bones?
Connective tissue (connective tissue membrane)
What covers the outer surface of a bone except if the bone forms a movable joint with another bone?
Periosteum
What is the periosteum composed of?
Dense irregular connective tissue
How do tendons and ligaments attach to a bone
via the Periosteum
What extends from the periosteum into the bone to ensure a strong attachment?
Perforating fibers
What does perforating fibers consist of
Bundles of collagen fibers
What lines the surface inside a bone, including the spaces of spongy bone, medullary cavity, central canals, and perforating canals?
Endosteum
What is the function of spongy bone
Reduce weight of bone
What are the interconnecting pieces of bone that form three dimensional lacework called?
Trabeculae
In a flat bone what is the layer of spongy bone called?
Diploe
In a flat short or irregular bone what is the layer of compact bone covered by
Periosteum
what lines the spaces of spongy bone
endosteum
What is the layer of dense irregular connective tissue that covers the outer surface of a bone called?
Periosteum
What is located in the center of the diaphysis of a long bone and filled with yellow marrow?
Medullary Cavity
What is found in mediately deep to the periosteum?
Compact bone
The epiphysis of a long bone is filled with what type of osseous tissue?
Spongy bone
What osseous tissue reduces the weight of bone
Spongy bone
Short irregular and flat bones are composed primarily of what type of osseous tissue?
Spongy bone
What is at the end of a long bone?
Epiphysis
In a bone, adipose connective tissue is known as what?
Yellow bone marrow
What is the connective tissue membrane lining the medullary cavity of a long bone, and central and perforating canals of compact bone, and the spaces of spongy bone?
Endosteum
What is dense heavy and able to withstand the stress is produced by body weight and movement?
Compact bone
What is the shaft of a long bone called
Diaphysis
What fills the spaces of spongy bone in flat bones of skull, ribs, sternum, scapula, hip, bones vertebrae, and proximal emphasis of the humerus and femur?
Red bone marrow
What supports the shaft of a long bone
Compact bone
Collagen fibers of ligaments and tendons penetrate what layer of bone?
Periosteum
what is hematopoietic (blood producing) reticular connective tissue.
Red bone marrow
Because of its smooth surface it helps to reduce friction between articulating bones at freely movable joints.
Articular cartilage
Because of its gelatinous ground substance it absorbs shock at freely movable joints
Articular cartilage
Describe osteoporosis
Bones are porous and thin, but bone composition is normal.
describe Osteomalacia.
Bone formed is poorly mineralized, and soft. Deforms on weight bearing.
describe Paget's disease
Abnormal bone formation and resorption
What contains blood vessels and nerves fibers in osseous tissue
central canal
where do osteocytes live
lacunae
hair like canals that connect the lacunae to each other and to the central canal.
canaliculi
layer of hard, calcified matrix around the central canal.
concentric lamellae
elongated cylinder oriented parallel to the bone's long axis; the structural unit of compact bone.
osteon
What inorganic mineral is responsible for bone hardness
mineral salts - predominantly hydroxyapatite
What organic mineral provides flexibility and tensile strength to the bone
Osteoid - matrix without mineralized salts.
what was in the tonic Eden Byers drank that accumulated in his bones and caused him to develop osteosarcoma.
radiam
A bone lacking its inorganic component would do what?
Sag
A bone lacking its organic component would do what
Be brittle and break easily
How many types of bone cells are there?
4.
osteogenic cells
osteoblasts
osteocytes
osteoclast
what are Osteogenic cells
Stem cells that differentiate into osteoblasts
Where are osteogenic cells located?
Endosteum and periosteum
What is the function of Osteoblasts
Produces new bone matrix
where Are osteoblasts located
Endosteum and periosteum
What is the function of Osteocytes
Maintain the bone matrix.
regulate remodeling by acting as strain sensors
Where are osteocytes located
Lacunae
What is the function of Osteoclasts
Resorb bone matrix by secreting acid and hydrolytic enzymes.
Arise from stem cells in red bone marrow.
Where are osteoclasts located
endosteum and periosteum
What is the development of stem cells into specialized cells called?
Differentiation
what is Differentiation?
The development of stem cells into specialized cells
Bone deposition and resorption is called what?
Bone remodeling
What is "bone remodeling"
Bone deposition and resorption
What does bone remodeling replace every 3 to 4 years?
Spongy bone
What is bone remodeling replace every 10 years?
Compact bone
What does bone remodeling help prevent?
Bone fractures
Bone remodeling allows the skeleton to do what?
Adapt to mechanical stress
Wolff's law
The architecture of a bone is determined by the mechanical stresses placed upon it, and the bone thereby adapts to withstand those stresses.
Whenever weight bears down on bone or when muscles pull on it, the bone is known as being?
loaded (stressed)
What detects mechanical stress on the bone?
Osteocytes
what produces more bone at a stress site?
Osteoblasts
What happens during Osteoporosis
Bone resorption outpaces bone deposition
What helps maintain the health and normal bone density of the skeleton by stimulating osteoblast activity?
Sex hormones estrogen and testosterone.
What is the normal range of calcium concentration in the blood?
9 to 11 milligrams
The normal range of calcium is maintained predominantly by what?
Parathyroid hormone (PTH)
When blood calcium levels get too low you would want your parathyroid glands to.... increase or decrease parathyroid secretion ?
Increase
When blood calcium levels get too high you would want your parathyroid glands to.... INCREASE or DECREASE parathyroid(PTH) secretion?
decrease
What is CALCITRIOL do?
Reinforces the effects of parathyroid hormone (PTH)
what is the most abundant bone matrix
Calcium
Calcitriol is secreted by what ?
Kidneys
What does the synthesis of calcitriol involve?
Sequential action of the skin, liver, and kidneys
What is secreted by the thyroid gland in response to high blood calcium levels
Calcitonin
What when administered at pharmacological doses can decrease the blood calcium level temporarily
Calcitonin
When does hyperexcitability occur?
When blood calcium levels are too low
What happens when blood calcium levels are too high
Non responsiveness an inability to function
What does pregnancy and lactation put women in risk of
hypocalcemia
(low calcium blood)
What can happen if plasma calcium concentration drops to 4mg/d?
laryngospasm can cut off airflow and cause suffocation
what is the breaking of a bone called.
Fracture
Describe the complete bone fracture
All the way horizontally across the bone
Describe an incomplete bone fracture
Not fractured completely across the bone
Describe a nondisplaced bone fracture
Bone ends still in alignment
Describe a displaced bone fracture
Bone ends not in alignment
Describe a closed (simple) bone fracture
No penetration of skin
Describe an open(compound) bone fracture
Bone penetrating skin
Describe a linear bone fracture
A break straight across
Describe a transverse bone fracture
A perpendicular break
Describe an oblique bone fracture
A bone broken diagonally
Describe a spiral (torsion) bone fracture
A bone broken twisting motion
How is a displaced fracture treated?
Reduction (realignment of broken bone ends)
What is a closed reduction
Fracture site is not exposed surgically; bone ends manipulated back into alignment from outside the body
What is an open reduction
Fracture exposed surgically and bone ends put back into alignment and secured with pins, plates, screws.
What starts around 6 weeks of fetal development and continues into a person's late teens to early twenties
ossification
what is OSSIFICATION
the process by which bone forms
what is the skeleton of a human embryo composed of?
sheets of fibrous connective tissue.

pieces of hyaline cartilage that are shaped roughly like the bones they will become.
The process by which the connective tissue sheets are replaced by bone is called
interamembranous ossification
What is the name of the process that forms the flat bones of the skull
Intramembranous ossification
The process by which hyaline cartilage is replaced by bone is called
Endochondral ossification
What process forms most bones, including all long bones
Endochondral ossification
What is the epiphyseal plate responsible for
Responsible for bone growth in length
What is this
Epiphyseal plate
What happens in the proliferation zone of the epiphyseal plate?
Cartilage cells undergo mitosis.
( to produce new cartilage cells)
( the new cells produce new cartilage matrix)
(Responsible for bone growing longer)
What happens in the hypertrophic zone of the epiphyseal plate
Older cartilage cells in large
(secrete chemical that stimulates matrix calcification)
What happens in the calcification zone of the epiphyseal plate
Matrix becomes calcified; cartilage cells die; matrix begins deteriorating.
What happens in the ossification zone of the epiphyseal plate
New bone formation is occurring. osteoclasts break down the deteriorating calcified cartilage. osteoblasts replace the cartilage within spongy bonen.
What is growth hormone from the pituitary gland responsible for
Bone growth
What is responsible for bone growth
GH (growth hormone) from the pituitary gland
What stimulates the growth of virtually all tissues to some degree
GH (growth hormone)
What cartilage is particularly sensitive to GH (growth hormone)
Hyaline cartilage
What is responsible for stimulating the addition of new cartilage tissue in the proliferation zone of epiphyseal plates
GH (growth hormone)
An adult with short stature but normal proportions has what?
Pituitary dwarfism
A person with abnormaly short stature but a normal sized head and trunk in adulthood has what?
Achondroplastic dwarfism
Increased secretion of GH (growth) hormone and sex hormones cause rapid bone growth when?
During puberty and adolescence
once the epiphyseal plates close, can you grow taller?
no
What is responsible for masculinization or feminization of the skeleton
Sex hormones
How does the female pelvis differ from the male pelvis
Female pelvis is wider
bone that is poorly mineralized and soft and deforms on weight bearing
Osteomalacia
What is an osteoid
A matrix without the mineralized salts
What are the 4 types of bone cells
Osteogenic cells.
osteoblasts.
osteocytes.
osteoclasts.
What are the 5 zones of the epiphyseal plate
Resting zone.
Proliferation zone.
hypertrophic zone.
calcification zone.
ossification zone.