Cartilage
Elastic cartilage is found in this one place
What is the external ear or epiglottis?
This bones main function is to bear weight in the leg
What is the tibia?
These are the classifications of bone types.
What are long bone, short bone, irregular, flat, and sesamoid bone?
The smooth, dense outer layer of the bone is called ________ bone.
What is compact bone
The epiphyseal plate is made up of this
What is Hyaline cartilage?
The cell that is found within the lacunae of cartilage
What is a chondrocyte?
This bone protects lungs and heart
What is a thoracic cage?
This bone type does not have any easily characterized shape, so it doesn't fit into any of the other classifications.
What makes an irregular bone?
The name of the tissue covering the outside of bones.
What is the periosteum?
These are the five major cell types that populate bone tissue.
What are Osteogenic cells, osteoblasts, osteocytes, bone lining cells, and osteoclasts?
A variety of cartilage tissue molded to fit its body location and function
What is skeletal cartilage?
The place where blood cells form and fat is stored
What is a Bone’s Marrow Cavity?
Femur, tibia, fibula, metatarsals, humerus, ulna, radius, metacarpals, phalanges
What are long bones?
DAILY DOUBLE
This tubular structure forms the long axis of the bone.
What is the diaphysis?
This runs through the core of each osteon to serve the osteon's cells.
What is The central canal?
The lacunae-bound chondrocytes divide and secrete new matrix in this process
What is Interstitial Growth?
This is the process of blood cell formation that occurs in the red marrow cavities of certain bones.
What is hematopoisesis?
A bone inside the tendons which passes over a joint. These act as pulleys for the tendons to allow the flexing or curling of toes.
What makes a sesamoid bone?
These are the cross-bridges that give strength and support to spongy bone.
What are trabeculae?
This part of bone tissue is responsible for the flexibility of the bone
What are organic components?
Cartilage-forming cells in the surrounding perichondrium secrete new matrix against the external face of the existing cartilage tissue in this process
What is appositional growth?
This is a hormone that helps regulate insulin secretion, glucose homeostasis, and energy expenditure
What is Osteocalcin?
Which of the following is not a flat bone: scapula, sternum, mandible frontal bone
What is mandible?
The fibers inside the structure that surronds the bone that secures the outer membrane to the bone.
What are Sharpey's fibers?
This is what osteoclasts do to the bone surface as they break down the bone matrix
What is dig depressions and grooves?