Bone Basics
What two types of tissue make up your skeleton?
Cartilage & bone
A connective tissue membrane that covers the outside of the bones
Periosteum
This type of bone cell can do mitosis.
Osteogenic cells
Short bones that are buried within tendons
Sesamoid Bones
The bones in your palms/hands are called
Metacarpals
Which of the major 4 types of tissue includes bone?
Connective tissue
Filled with yellow marrow
Medullary cavity
This type of bone cell gets buried and becomes another type of bone cell.
Osteoblast
Fibula
Long bone
Which part of the hip bone is at the front?
Pubis
What is a hematoma?
Blood clot
Shaft of the bone
Diaphysis
This type of bone cell translates into “bone cell.”
Osteocyte
Mandible
Irregular bone
The hip bones are also known as the _______bones.
coxal
What do we call bones of the skeleton that fall on the midline (think sagittal plane)?
Axial
Protects the ends of our bones from friction & shock as joints move and we put weight on them
Articular cartilage
This type of bone cell shaves away old bone when your bones are growing wider.
Osteoclast
Usually sit together with other short bones in a group
Short bone
What two bones make up your pectoral girdle?
Clavicles & scapulae
What organs in your body are best protected by bone? Provide 4 examples of organs as well as the bones that protect them.
Brain – skull; spinal cord – vertebrae; heart/lungs – ribcage; internal reproductive organs – pelvis
Allows newly formed blood to exit the bone and enter the bloodstream; allows the bone tissue to receive nutrients, oxygen, and hormones
Nutrient foramen
This type of bone cell creates osteoid.
Osteoblast
Provide a great place for muscles to attach
Flat Bone
The _________ ribs attach to the sternum via an independent section of costal cartilage.
true