The first five ribs (going superior to inferior)
What are true ribs?
What are the Cervical Vertebrae?
What is Occipital Bone
What is the xiphoid process?
Mature bone cell
What is an osteocyte?
Ribs 6-10 (going superior to inferior)
What are the false ribs
What are the Lumbar Vertebrae
What is a mandible?
What is the coronal suture?
Connective tissue on the outside of a bone
What is the periosteum?
Ribs 11 and 12 (going superior to inferior)
What are the floating ribs?
What are the Thoracic vertebrae?
What is the Sphenoid?
What is the sagittal suture?
Explain the role of osteoblasts, osteoclasts, and osteogenic cells.
osteoblasts- lay down bone matrix
osteoclasts- breakdown bone matrix
osteogenic cells- stem cells that can become osteoblasts or osteocytes
What is an advantage of having cartilage on your ribs rather than bone all the way through
the flexible cartilage can expand allowing you to breath
What is a intervertebral disc?
What is the Ethmoid?
What is the foramen magnum?
Explain what Haversian and Volkmann's canals?
Haversian canals transports blood along the length of the bone while volkmann's canals transport blood along its width
The ribs articulate posteriorly with _____________ and anteriorly with _________________
the vertebra/spine; the sternum
What is this structure made of?
What is Fibrocartilage?
What is the Lacrimal?
Explain what a process and an magnum are
A magnum is a hole in a bone
A process is a pointy protrusion
Name an organ of the skeletal system
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