Skeletal System
The root word for bone is ______. The root word for cartilage is _________.
What is osteo? What is chondro?
In the stratum basal, this is a sensory receptor that is responsible for light touch.
What are merkel cells? What are tactile epithelial cells?
This type of cell can activate the immune system in the epidermis:
What is a dendritic cell?
This type of tissue is the main component of the hypodermis.
What is adipose CT?
A burn patient loses the outermost layer of their skin, leading to excessive water loss and an increased risk of infection. This epidermal layer is being effected.
What is stratum corneum?
What are cells?
This layer is only present in thick or hairless skin.
What is the stratum lucidum?
Type of bone cell that is responsible for building bone by secreting matrix?
What is an osteoblast?
This type of tissue lies on the ends of moveable joints.
What is hyaline cartilage?
What are eccrine sweat glands?
This type of cartilage growth secretes extracellular proteins against external cartilage as opposed to within lacunae.
What is appositional growth?
This mechanism of gland secretion releases products with secretory vesicles and exocytosis.
This type of cell serves as a communicator between osteoclasts and osteoblasts:
What is an osteocyte?
This type of tissue contains lots of fibers that help maintain shape and flexibility. It can be found in the epiglottis.
What is elastic cartilage?
A patient with bowleggedness has bones that are too flexible when there is compressive pressure. You suspect that there is disfunction with the secretion of what?
What are mineral salts and calcium phosphates?
A function of the skeletal system is blood cell formation, what is the term to describe this process and where does it occur.
What is hematopoiesis in the red bone marrow of long bones?
These two types of pigments are released in granules to protect our skin cells.
What is eumelanin? What is pheomelanin?
This type of cell is held together by lots of desmosomes. Friction activates it's stem cells to proliferate.
What is a keratinocyte?
During interstitial cartilage growth, the chondrocytes divide and secrete from within here.
An adult comes into the office and after a series of tests you determine that there is too much bone depositing and reabsorbing. You suspect that there is a disfunction with this cell.
Bones are like banks. What are the two inorganic materials that can be deposited or withdrawn from the bones?
What are calcium and phosphate?
This type of gland is located usually near the upper part of a hair follicle. It has antibacterial properties, and helps prevent water loss.
This type of cell originates from the white blood cell lineage?
What is an osteoclast?
This type of cartilage is incredibly important during labor for women, in the pelvic region. It absorbs a lot of compressive shock and has high tensile strength.
What is fibrocartilage?
What is keratin?