Bone Structure
Bone Fracture
Bone Growth/Repair
Axial Skeleton
Appendicular Skeleton
100
The middle section of a long bone. Contains the medullary cavity.
What is the diaphysis?
100
A fracture in which the bone fragment has pierced through the skin.
What is an open (compound) fracture?
100
Bone cells that buid bone tissue.
What are osteoblasts?
100
The flat bone in the chest that true ribs attach to. The clavicles also articulate to the top of this bone.
What is the sternum?
100
The 2 bones of the pectoral girdle.
What are the clavicle and the scapula?
200
A fibrous membrane that covers the outside of a bone.
What is the periosteum?
200
An incomplete fracture where the bone has bent first. Most common in children.
What is a greenstick fracture?
200
Bone cells the break down bone tissues.
What are osteoclasts?
200
The 5 sections of the human spine.
What are the cervical vertebrae, thoracic vertebrae, lumbar vertebrae, the sacrum, and the coccyx?
200
The 3 main pieces of a coxal bone.
What are the ilium, ischium, and pubis?
300
The end segments of a long bone. Contains spongey bone filled with red marrow.
What is epihpysis?
300
A fracture where one bone fragment is driven into the other.
What is an impacted fracture?
300
A segment of cartilage inside the ends of bone from which bone grows.
What is the epiphyseal plate?
300
the connective tissue structures that connect the ribs to the sternum (except for the floating ribs).
What is costal cartilage?
300
The 3 bones that form the arm.
What are the humerus, ulna, and radius?
400
A fibrous membrane that lines the medullary cavity.
What is the endosteum?
400
A fracture where the fracture ling is diagonal to the long axis of the bone.
What is an oblique fracture?
400
A segment of hard, compact bone that forms at the completion of a bone's growth.
What is the epiphyseal line?
400
The 4 facial bones you can feel from the surface (do not include internal bones of the nasal cavity or orbital sockets).
What are the mandible, maxilla, nasal bone, and zygomatic bones?
400
The 4 bones of the leg.
What are the femur, patella, tibia, and fibula?
500
Bone with empty spaces. Formed of weblike trabeculae.
What is cancellous bone?
500
A fracture that produces more than 2 bone fragments. Requires very large forces.
What is a comminuted fracture?
500
A mass of tissue that forms around a break in a bone to provide stability and a location for bone cell activity.
What is a callus?
500
the bones that form the dome of the cranium.
What are the frontal bone, parietal bones, and occipital bone?
500
The heel bone.
What is the calcaneus?
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