BONES
The shaft or the long bone
What is the diaphysis?
Skull, rib cage, thoracic cage make up this skeleton
What is the axial skeleton?
Provides "hardness" to the bones
What is calcium?
The major cell type found in bones
What is an osteocyte?
The heaviest bone on the body
What is the femur?
tissue covering the bones containing blood vessels and nerves
What is the perisoteum?
Upper and lower extremities make up this skeleton
What is the appenicular skeleton?
Allows bones to glide over each other, prevents friction
What is the articular cartilage?
The cells that make new bone
What are osteoblasts?
The place in the long bones where blood is produced
What is bone marrow?
A break in a bone
What is a fracture?
The two bones of the lower arm
What are the ulna and radius?
Anchors the perisoteum to the bone
What are Sharpey's fibers?
This cell resorbs and remodels bone
What are osteoclasts?
A medical condition where bones become brittle and fragile
What is osteoporosis?
Blood clots at the site of a fracture
What is a hematoma?
The longer of the two bones in the forearm
What is the ulna?
This is formed once the bone stops growing
What is the epiphyseal line?
Spaces in the bones where osteocytes are found
What are lacunae?
In space, this leads to decreased bone formation and bone loss
What is skeleton unloading?
As the bone heals, the hardening of the callus into bone
What is ossification?
Areas where bones join together
What are joints?
Shock absorbers in the spine
What are intervetebral discs?
The specific type of cell that gives rise to all blood cells
What are hematopoietic stem cells?
Two treatments for osteoporosis
What are drugs that slow bone loss down and stimulate bone formation?