Bone Cells
These bone cells BUILD new bone.
What are osteoblasts?
Small spaces that house osteocytes.
What are lacunae?
The skeleton that runs down the body’s midline.
What is the axial skeleton?
This cranial bone forms the forehead
What is the frontal bone?
Soft spots in an infant’s skull are called these.
What are fontanelles?
These mature bone cells maintain bone tissue and live in lacunae.
What are osteocytes?
Tiny canals that allow bone cells to communicate.
What are canaliculi?
Bones of the arms, legs, and girdles belong to this skeleton.
What is the appendicular skeleton?
This is the only movable bone of the skull.
What is the mandible?
Fontanelles allow for this important process.
What is brain growth?
These cells break down and remove old bone.
What are osteoclasts?
The structural unit of compact bone.
What is an osteon?
Name ONE structure of the axial skeleton.
What is the skull / vertebral column / rib cage?
Name ONE facial bone.
What is the maxilla / zygomatic / nasal / lacrimal / palatine / vomer / mandible?
A flattened head shape caused by positioning.
What is plagiocephaly?
Stem cells that give rise to osteoblasts.
What are osteogenic cells?
The canal that contains blood vessels and nerves in compact bone.
What is the central canal?
Name ONE structure of the appendicular skeleton.
What are the arms / legs / pelvic girdle / shoulder girdle?
This cranial bone forms the back of the skull.
What is the occipital bone?
A condition caused by early fusion of skull sutures.
What is craniosynostosis?
Memory trick: “Blasts Build, ______ Clear.”
What are clasts?
The spongy bone framework that provides strength with less weight.
What are trabeculae?
Which skeleton is mainly responsible for movement?
What is the appendicular skeleton?
How many cranial bones are there?
What is eight?
Which is more dangerous: plagiocephaly or craniosynostosis—and why?
What is craniosynostosis because it restricts brain growth?