Femur
The joints between skull bones.
What are immovable joints?
An injury where a bone is completely out of its joint.
What is a dislocation?
A fully matured bone cell.
What is an osteocyte?
The type of marrow that produces blood cells.
What is red marrow?
Patella
Another name for a movable joint.
A disease common in older people where bones weaken and break more easily.
What is osteoporosis?
A type of bone cell that creates new osseous tissue.
What is an osteoblast?
The protective padding found at the end of long bones.
What is articular cartilage?
Clavicle
A synovial joint that has a range of motion of almost 360 degrees.
What is a ball-and-socket joint?
This injury is caused by pulling on a child's hand resulting in a ligament being pinched between the radius and humerus.
What is nursemaid's elbow?
The process in which a child's more cartilaginous skeleton develops into a mature skeleton of bone tissue.
What is ossification?
The membrane that covers the outside of the entire bone.
What is the periosteum?
Phalanges
The knee is an example of this joint.
What is a hinge joint?
A specific type of arthritis where crystals form in the joint.
What is gout?
The main structural protein in the bone matrix.
What is collagen?
The inner part of the long bone that houses yellow marrow.
What is the medullary cavity?
Cervical Vertebrae
Joint formed by the radius and ulna.
What is a pivot joint?
This type of bone fracture, where a bone bends and cracks, occurs in children younger than 10.
What is a greenstick fracture?
The units of bone tissue that encircles blood vessels (haversian canals).
What is an osteon?
The end of the bone closer to the trunk of the body.
What is the proximal epiphysis?