Bone Basics
The Greek name for bone.
What is Osteo?
The scapula is this bone type.
What is a flat bone?
Three functions of the skeletal system.
What is support, protection, and movement (also accepts storage, blood formation, or hormone production)
What osteoblasts do.
What is build and construct bone by calcifying it as it forms?
Your bones are how many times stronger than steel (by weight).
What is about six times stronger?
The number of bones in the adult human body.
What is 206?
What is a sesamoid bone?
The part of the skeleton that includes the skull, vertebral column, and rib cage.
What is the axial skeleton?
The main function of an osteocyte.
what is to maintain healthy bone structure?
The process of making blood cells.
What is hematopoiesis?
A bone type that doesn't fit into long, short, or flat categories - such as the hip bone.
What is an irregular bone?
The difference in functions between the axial and appendicular skeletons.
What is the axial provides structure and support where the appendicular allows movement?
The role of osteoclasts.
What is to break down and reabsorb bone tissue?
The location where hematopoiesis occurs.
What is the red bone marrow?
The outermost layer of bone.
What is the periosteum?
A type of callus that forms during bone fracture healing.
What is fibrocartilaginous callus?
The number of bones that makes up the vertebral column.
What is 26?
This cell type would be most active after a fracture.
What are osteoblasts?
This mineral is most abundant in bone.
What is calcium?
The reason bone is like a living organism.
What is that it contains living cells, grows, remodels, heals, and produces blood cells?
Intramembranous ossification and endochondral ossification are part of this process.
What is the bone formation process.
The main difference between compact bone and spongy bone in both structure and function.
What is that compact bone is dense and strong, forming the outer layer of bones while spongy bone is lighter, found insides bones, and has spaces that contain red marrow?
The disease that happens when bone resorption outpaces bone formation.
What is osteoporosis?
This part of the long bone contains red marrow in children but yellow marrow in adults.
What is the medullary cavity?