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Bone Cells
Landmarks
Parts of a Long Bone
Articulations
Miscellaneous
100
Bone cell that breaks apart bone.
What is an osteoclast?
100
Oblong elevation on the proximal anterior surface of the tibia just below the proximal epiphysis.
What is the tibial tuberosity?
100
Bulbous end of a long bone filled with red marrow.
What is the epiphysis?
100
The knee and the elbow.
What is a hinge joint.
100
Lower jaw.
What is the mandible.
200
A mature bone cell.
What is an osteocyte?
200
Deep depression on the distal posterior side of the humerus that connects with the ulna.
What is the olecranon fossa?
200
The membrane that covers all surfaces of a long bone except at the joint.
What is Periosteum?
200
Hip and Shoulder.
What is a ball and socket joint?
200
Pads of hyaline cartilage that connect the proximal end of the rib to the sternum.
What is costal cartilage?
300
The laying down of new bone material by osteoblasts.
What is ossification.
300
Lateral extension of the spine of the scapula that forms the highest point of the shoulder.
What is the acromion process?
300
The basic, functional unit of compact bone.
What is a Haversian System or Osteon?
300
Immovable joints like sutures.
What are synarthrosis or fibrous.
300
This is the number of thoracic vertebrae.
What is 12?
400
The formation of new bone cells.
What is hematopoiesis?
400
Meatus
What is a tubelike opening or canal.
400
Microscopic structures in compact bone that carry blood and nutrients perpendicular to the Haversian Canals.
What are Volkmann's Canals?
400
Largest joint in the body.
What is the knee joint.
400
These are the names of the carpals.
What are the trapezoid, trapezium, capitate, hamate, triquetrum, pisiform, lunate, scaphoid.
500
Endocrine gland that signals osteoclasts to break down calcium from the bone due to low levels of calcium in the body.
What is the parathyroid gland?
500
The most inferior of the pairs of foramen on the face.
What are the mental foramen?
500
Small channels found in ossified bone that carry nutrients to the lacunae.
What are canaliculi?
500
Pads of fibrocartilage that disperse pressure found between the femur and tibia.
What are menisci?
500
Condition where someone has a sway back.
What is lordosis?