Bone
Composition
Bone Growth
Bone Cells
Bone Trivia
Bone Fractures
100
The outer vascular covering of mature skeletal bones.
What is periosteum?
100
Type of bone growth which makes bones grow "wider"
What is appositional growth?
100
The type of cells responsible for dissolving old bone tissue.
What is an osteoclast?
100
The number of bones in the adult body.
What is 206?
100
A fracture that breaks the bone AND pierces the skin.
What is a compound fracture (open fracture)?
200
The tissue in bone that gives it strength.
What is collagen?
200
The week of gestation during which ossification begins
What is the sixth week?
200
Mature bone cells.
What are osteocytes?
200
The area between the "ends" and the "shaft" of a long bone.
What is the epiphyseal plate? (growth plate)
200
An incomplete break, most common in children, on the outer arc of a long bone.
What is a greenstick fracture?
300
The basic functional unit of compact bone.
What is an osteon?
300
Type of growth only found in flat bones.
What is intramembraneous growth?
300
Immature bone cells which will become osteocytes.
What is an osteoblast?
300
If this feature is really thin or not visible on an X-ray, it is likely that you are finished growing in height.
What is an epiphyseal plate?
300
A blood clot formed in the space between the edges of a break.
What is a hematoma?
400
Two thirds of the weight of bone is composed of this compound.
What is calcium phosphate?
400
Type of bone growth which begins with a cartilage model.
What is endochondral growth?
400
The pockets in which osteocytes are found.
What is lacunae?
400
A horizontal canal through bones that forms a passageway for blood vessels and nerves.
What is a perforating canal?
400
Tissue that replaces the hematoma during bone repair.
What is a soft callus? (spongy bone and fibrocartilage)
500
Two different types of bony tissue based on the arrangement of cells.
What are compact and spongy?
500
The process of replacing cartilage tissue with bony tissue.
What is ossification?
500
The type of cells that are produced by the red bone marrow.
What is a blood cell?
500
The age at which the last of your bones stop growing. (not including remodeling or repair)
What is 25?
500
The final step in bone repair after a fracture.
What is remodeling - "the osteoclasts break down and remove the excess bony tissue."
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