Number of bones in the human skeleton
What is 206?
The age that bone density begins to decrease in men
What is 45?
To harden
What is ossify?
The continuous process whereby bone is created and destroyed
What is remodeling?
The lack of this affects cartilage's ability to heal
What is blood supply and innervation?
A potential space that separates the articulating surfaces of the two bones
What is a joint cavity?
Points of contact between two bones that hold the bones together
What are joints?
Fibrous, cartilaginous, and synovial are this
What is joint structural classifications?

What is the axial skeleton?
The human bones that relate to the limbs of the body
What is the appendicular skeleton?
The number of bones in the axial skeleton.
What is 80?
Bone-forming cells
What are osteoblasts?
The 3 types of cartilage
What are hyaline, fibrous, and elastic?
Immovable joints; skull structures'
What are synarthrosis?
The 6 subdivisions of synovial joints (name at least 3)
What are gliding, hinge, pivot, condylar, saddle, and ball and socket?
The shoulder and hip are examples of this type of joint
What is a ball and socket joint?
The clavicle, scapula, humerus, radius, ulna, carpals, metacarpals, & phalanges, pelvic bones, femur, patella, fibula, tibia, tarsals, metatarsals, & phalanges
What are the bones of the appendicular skeleton?
An example of a long bone
What are the humerus, radius, femur, and tibia?
An example of irregular bones
What are vertebrae and mandible?
Spongy bone found in the central regions of short, flat and irregular bones
What are cancellous bones?
Dense connective tissue that consists of fibers embedded in a strong, gel-like substance
What is cartilage?
Synarthrosis, amphiarthrosis, diarthrosis
What are joint functional classifications?
An example of a hinge joint
What is the knee or elbow?
Freely movable joints such as the elbow
What are diarthrosis?
The shaft of the long bone
What is diaphysis?
Minute channels that lie parallel to the axis of the bone and are passages for arterioles
What are haversian canals?
Protect internal tissues and organs, stabilize and support the body, provide a surface for the muscle, ligament, & tendon attachment, move through 'lever' action when contracted, produce red blood cells, store mineral salts
What are the functions of the bones?
Ends of the long bone
What are epiphyses?
Located in the auditory canal, external ear, and epiglottis; the most pliable cartilage
What is elastic cartilage?
Similar to condylar joints, but allow greater freedom of movement
What is a saddle joint?
Type of joint that in which the rounded portion of one bone fits into a groove in another bone
What is a pivot joint?
A type of joint that is flat or slightly curved articular surfaces
What is a gliding joint?
The flared end of the diaphysis where the shaft merges with the epiphyses
What is the metaphysis?
Hard bone found in the outer layers of short, flat, and irregular bones
What is compact bone?
A collagenous material that ossifies
What is osteoid?
The 3 paths of blood supply to the bones
What are haversian canals, Volkmann's canals and vessels?
This covers the articular bone surfaces; the most common type of cartilage
What is hyaline cartilage?
Small synovial fluid sacs located at friction points around joints between tendons, ligaments, and bones
What is bursae?
The type of joint in which an oval surface of one bone fits into a concavity on another bone
What are condylar joints?

What is a condylar joint?