Bones Shapes
The femur is an example of this type of bone.
What is a long bone?
This would be a bone that is not completely broken through.
What is an incomplete fracture?
This is the amount of synovial joint categories
What is 6?
What are the primary functions of Osteoclasts?
What is large cells that resorb, or break down bone tissue?
This is another name for a jaw bone.
What is mandible?
Bones shaped like small cubes would belong to this bone shape category.
What are short bones?
This forms after a fracture in a bone occurs.
What is a bone callus?
Ball and socket joints are found in these places
What is shoulder and hip?
Where are Osteocytes found?
What is embedded within the bone matrix?
This structure attaches bone to bone.
What is a ligament?
The cranium is compromised of eight of this type of bone.
What are flat bones?
These are the 4 basic ways to describe a bone fracture
Complete, incomplete, simple, and compound
A joint capsule filled with _____ _____ surrounds the end of the bones.
What is synovial fluid?
This is what osteoblsts turn into when they're trapped in the bone they create.
What is osteocytes?
The place where two bones is called a joint, or the ___________.
The mandible, sacrum, and vertebrae all belong to this bone shape category.
What are irregular bones?
The process of supporting the bone during healing with a cast or a splint
Immobilization
This is a chronic autoimmune disease that causes inflammation and damages the joints
What is Rheumatoid arthritis?
How long do osyeocytes live?
What is up to 25 years?
What is suture?
This fixed arm bone belongs to the long bone category.
What is the ulna?
This is done when bones are not in a proper place to heal, and must be put into alignment.
What is a reduction?
These are the 6 types of synovial joints
What is pivot , ball and socket, saddle joint, gliding/plane, hinge, condylar?
This is the definition of osteo.
What is bone?
This is the process of the body making new blood cells.
What is hematopoiesis?