Bone Parts
Bone Cells
Shapes and Types
Fractures
Joints
100

What is the shaft of the bone called?

Diaphysis

100

Which cells form organic matter of matrix and help mineralize it in response to stress fractures?

Osteoblasts

100

Which type shape of bone has an external and internal structure composed of compact bone and a middle layer of spongy bone?

Flat Bone

100

What is a fracture called when the bone protrudes from the skin?

Open, compound, displaced

100

What are the only multiaxial joints in the body?

Ball-and-socket (shoulder and hip)

200

What are the ends of the bones called?

Epiphyses

200

Which cells are osteoblasts that have become trapped?

Osteocyte

200

Which shape of bone has compact bone externally, spongy bones on the ends, and endosteum inside?

Long Bone

200

What is a fracture called when it is parallel to the line of axis?

Linear

200

What kind of joint is the metacarpophalangeal joint?

Condyloid Joint

300

What is the inner layer of bone called that contains cells providing bone resorption and deposition?

Endosteum

300

Which are the bone dissolving cells?

Osteoclasts

300

Which shape of bone makes up the carpals and tarsals?

Short Bone

300

What is a diagonal fracture called?

Oblique

300

What kind of joint forms our opposable thumbs?

Saddle Joint

400

What is the outer fibrous layer of the bone called?

Periosteum

400

Which cells differentiate into osteoblasts?

Osteogenic cells

400

Which type of bone has trabeculae?

Spongy

400

What type of fracture is the result of twisting stress?

Spiral

400

What joint helps move our neck?

Pivot

500

What helps bone grow and determines age

Epiphyseal plate/line

500

Which cells are mature osteoblasts?

Osteocytes

500

Which type of bone has Haversian systems and lamellae?

Compact Bone

500

What fracture is an incomplete fracture on one side and the other side is bent?

Greenstick

500

What kind of joints are our elbow and knee?

Hinge 

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