Miscellaneous
Classifications of bones (name 3)
What are long, flat, short, round, irregular, and facial bones?
This kind of tissue is significant in the long bones in an embryo.
What is hyaline cartilage.
What are the jobs of the osteoblasts and osteoclasts?
Osteoblasts build. osteoclasts destroy
This kind of fracture is an open wound or break in the skin near the site of the broken bone.
What is a compound fracture
These two important minerals are stored in bones.
What are calcium and phosphorus
The cranium falls into this category
What is flat bones?
This section of the bone acts as a fat storage for adults
Medullary (or marrow) cavity (central cavity)
How are osteocytes created? What are their filaments (tentacles) used for?
Osteocytes fusion of precursor cells Filaments create connections so the cells can send signals.
This fracture is most common in children.
What are greenstick fractures.
What is the function of yellow marrow in the bone?
What is fat storage.
The arm and leg bones fall into this bone category.
What is are long bones.
This bone category is composed of two layers of compact bone and a layer of spongy bone between them.
What are flat bones
These are the small cavities where osteocytes can be found.
What is the lucunae
A fracture where the bone is broken into many fragments.
A comminuted fracture
These cells help with bone formation.
osetoblasts
The coxal is this type of bone category.
What is the irregular bone
This is found on the end of bones and used as cushion in joints.
What is hyaline (articular) cartilage.
What miracle do osteoblasts perform when healing a broken bone.
What is turning a blood clot into solid bone.
This type of fracture us common in osteoporotic bones
compression fractures
This passageway allow blood cells within lacunae to receive nourishment from blood vessels.
haversian canal
Mandible, maxillae, zygomatic bones, nasal bones are these types of bone categories.
What are the facial bones?
A layer of fibrous connective tissue that covers the long portion of the bone
What is the periosteum?
What are two ways bone cells play a role in homeostasis
1. Building bone and destroying bone - keeps it healthy and renewed. 2. Calcium - if it's used up, destroy one to release more. If extra, store it.
What are the four stages in the healing of bone fractures? (Name them in order)
1. The formation of hematoma at the break
2) the formation of a fibrocartilaginous callus
3) the formation of a bony callus
4) remodeling and addition of compact bone.
Parathyriod hormone is activated by this type of cell.
osteoblasts