Skeleton 1
How many bones make up the adult body
What is 206 bones?
A large prominence on a bone that for the attachment of muscles.
What is Trochanter?
What are the two main parts of the skeleton system.
What is Axial and Appendicular?
A small prominence on a bone where muscles and connectI’ve tissues attach.
What is Tubercle?
Looks long and skinny. Location could be on arms, legs, fingers
What are long bones?
A raised sharp projection where muscles and connective tissues attach.
What is process?
A membrane around the outside of the whole bone that protects and helps the bone with repair and nutrition.
What is Periosteum?
Looks: Flat and Large
Location:Head, Ribs, Hip
What is Flat bone?
The area of the bone where the bone growth happens.
What is Epiphyseal plates?
An air filled cavity within a bone.
What is Sinus?
A shallow depression in a bone.
What is a Fossa?
Bone cells that “degrade” or destroy old bone to make room for new bone.
What is osteoclasts?
Looks:Dense, Thick, and Compact
Location: The middle of long bones and the edges of bones.
What is compact bone?
Looks:Short and square
Location: Wrist, ankle, knee cap
What is Short Bone?
Bone cells that build bones
What is osteoblasts?
The process of bone formation
What is ossification?
A hole through a bone which nerves and blood vessels pass through.
What is foramen?
Bone marrow inside the spongy bone that makes the blood cells.
What is Red Bone Marrow?
A tube like channel through a bone which nerves and blood vessels and sound pass through.
What is Meatus?
5 functions of the skeleton
What is protection, support, movement, store minerals, make blood.
Looks like a sponge in the inside.
The ends of the of long bones.
What is Spongy Bone?
Bulbous end of a long bone.
What is Epiphysis?
Bone cells that are part of fully formed bone
What is osteocytes?
The middle region of a long bone
What is diaphysis?
4 shape categories of bones
What is long, short, flat, and irregular?
Bone marrow inside the medullary cavity that is important for fat storage.
What is Yellow Bone Marrow?
A membrane around the inside of the medullary cavity.
What is Endosteum?
A hollow cavity in the diaphysis
What is Medullary Cavity?
a hollow cavity in the diaphysis
What is Medullary Cavity?
Cartilage which protects the bone from wearing down as it hits other bones around it
What is Articular Cartilage?