Axial Skeleton
Bones are classified by their shape...the vertebrae of the spine are classified as this shape.
What are irregular bones?
This cavity houses bone marrow and is located within the shaft of a long bone.
What is the medullary cavity?
Type of flat bone also known as the pelvis.
What is the pelvic girdle?
This is the process by which calcium and minerals are deposited into cartilage to form bone.
What is ossification?
These connect muscle to bone.
What are tendons?
What is the frontal bone?
This tissue could be referred to as the building block of bone.
What is cartilage?
This type of joint is found in your knee and elbow.
What is hinge joint?
What are osteoblasts?
In synovial joints, this (in conjuction with articular cartilage) helps provide smooth movement at joints.
What is synovial fluid?
While a human body consists of 206 bones in total, only this many are found within the axial skeleton.
What is 80?
Periosteum covers much of the bone, except at the ends where joints are formed. This type of cartilage covers the ends of the bones to provide smooth movement of joints.
What is articular cartilage?
You will find the femoral artery near this bone, which is the strongest bone found in the human body.
What is the femur?
This hormone is released by the Thyroid gland to trigger the absorption of calcium into the bones.
What is calcitonin?
These specialized bone cells secrete acid to enlarge the medullary cavity and are responsible for breaking down bone.
What are osteoclasts?
These provide cushioning and absorb shock between vertebrae that have not fused together.
What are intervertebral discs?
This crystalline salt gives bone its compressive strength and hardness.
What are hydroxyapatites?
These bones are distal to the humerus and proximal to the carpals, metacarpals, and phalanges.
What are the radius and ulna?
These are the 5 functions of the skeletal system.
What is support, protection, storage, manufacturing, and movement?
These are the first and last steps of healing a broken bone.
What is a hematoma forms(first) and compact bone forms(last)?
Part of the vertebrae just superior to the coccyx that fuses together during adolescence.
What is the sacrum?
These cylindrical shaped structures (found within compact bone) consist of lamellae, Haversian canal, osteocytes and canaliculi.
What are osteons?
(What is Haversian system?)
This sesamoid bone is distal to your femur and proximal to your tarsals.
What is the patella?
This tissue, which produces red and white blood cells, is found within the diaphysis of long bone during childhood as well as spongy bone during adulthood.
What is red bone marrow?
These 2 types of joints allow for little to no movement at the joint.
What are fibrous and cartilaginous joints?