Calcium Balance
The main mineralized molecule of bone
What is Hydroxyapatite?
The functional units of compact bone
What are Osteons?
The bone builders
What are Osteoblasts?
The shape of bones that are usually "cube-shaped" or somewhat spherical
What are short bones?
The function of yellow bone marrow
What is fat storage?
The lack of bone density (usually associated with age)
What is Osteoporosis?
The rings of hard matrix
What are lamellae?
The bone dissolvers/digesters
What are the Osteoclasts?
The shape of bones that results in odd processes, projections, and sections of bone
What are irregular bones?
The word that means "an actively repairing spot on a bone, made of fibrocartilage and subsequently spongy bone"
What is a Callus?
The hormone that raises blood Calcium
What is PTH?
Tiny tunnels that connect Lacunae to each other
What are Canaliculi?
The stem cells that are in bone membranes
What are the Osteogenic Stem Cells?
The ossification method that starts with a hyaline cartilage model
What is Endochondral ossification?
The number of bones in a fully grown adult
What is 206?
The gland that releases Calcitonin
What is the Thyroid gland?
What does Collagen have to do with bones?
The main cell type of completed bone tissue
What are Osteocytes?
The ossification method that grows across a flat sheet of membrane, and the gaps between those sheets (soft spots)
What is intramembranous ossification and what are fontanels?
The plates of bone associated with spongy bone, and the material found surrounding them
What are trabeculae and red bone marrow?
The amount of Calcium in the blood and the % of total bodily Calcium in the bones
What are 9-11 mg/dl and 99%?
The portion of long bones that is primarily composed of Compact bone and the rings that indicate growth in thickness
What are the diaphysis and its circumferential lamellae?
The cells of Red Bone Marrow that produce new blood cells
What are the Hematopoietic Stem Cells?
The order of the layers of cartilage in an adolescent's growth plate
What are Resting cartilage, Proliferating cartilage, Hypertrophic cartilage, and Calcifying cartilage?
The membranes that surround and line bones
What are the Periosteum and Endosteum?