What is to produce new blood cells (red, platelets, and most white cells)
100
Thin layers of bone
What is lamellae?
100
The first step after a fracture.
What is inflammation and bleeding?
100
Bones in your wrist
What is carpals?
200
When a bone is broken into several pieces.
What is comminuted?
200
Cavity in the bone.
What is the medullary cavity?
200
Channels that connect lacunae.
What is canaliculi?
200
The two main reasons for fractures?
What is diseases and traumatic injury?
200
Upper Arm Bone
What is the humerus?
300
Why your bones are never more than 20 years old.
What is: they are constantly being replaced - carved away by osteoclasts and built back up by osteoblasts.
300
2 functions of periosteum
What is: an attachment point for muscles and tendons, nourish the bone, increasing the width of long bone and help in healing a fracture
300
One complete round bone structure (a system of channels)
What is an osteon
300
The least movable functional joint type.
What is a synarthrosis?
300
Knee cap
What is the patella?
400
An example of an irregular bone.
What is vertebræ, sacrum, coccyx, temporal, sphenoid, ethmoid, zygomatic, maxilla, mandible, palatine, inferior nasal concha, or hyoid?
400
Connective Tissue that lines the inside of the bone.
What is endosteum?
400
The bone building cells that can roam around the body.
What is osteoblasts?
400
Allows synovial joints such a great range of motion.
What is the synovial capsule filled with synovial fluid to keep the epiphyses moving smoothly, also the connective ligaments & tendons which help hold the articulations together.
400
Cheek Bone
What is a zygomatic?
500
Why are the long bones shaped the way they are?
What is: the shape provides maximum strength and support at the lowest possible weight.
500
The end of the bone far away from the body.
What is a distal epiphysis?
500
The cells that would likely be malfunctioning in osteoporosis.
What is osteoblasts not building fast enough, osteoclasts carving away too fast, or a combination of the two.
500
The reason greenstick fractures usually happen in children.
What is: their bones aren't fully developed - part cartilaginous, so they break on one side and bend on one side instead of break all the way through.