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Bone Fishing
Bone Parts
Compact Anatomy
Ossification
Bone Facts
100
This cell functions in breaking down bone and releasing its minerals
What is an Osteoclast
100
Its name means "upon growth", they are the ends of long bones
What is Epiphysis
100
The word means "little canals", They are small processes which deliver nutrients from blood vessels to the space containing the osteocytes.
What is Canaliculi
100
This type of bone formation occurs on a fibrous membrane
What is Intramembranous ossification
100
This is formed as the result of a person hitting puberty. The growth plate stops functioning and becomes what?
What is Epiphyseal line
200
On a bone, this is the outer dense bone tissue
What is Compact bone
200
The name means "beam", many of them form a network or lattice of fine plate-like strands of bone.
What is Trabeculae
200
The word means "sheets", they are concentric rings of the osteon
What is Lamellae
200
This is a process where bones grow in size by the addition of bone tissue to the surface of the bone
What is Appositional growth
200
This is the average time it takes to replace bones
What is about 7 years
300
A mature bone cell, these cells laid down a calcium hydroxide and calcium phosphate matrix
What is a Osteocyte
300
This is a fibrous covering around the bone.
What is Periosteum
300
The word means "little lake", it is the space which the osteocyte occupies
What is Lacuna
300
In this type of bone formation, a hyaline cartilage template will become ossified.
What is Endochondrial ossification
300
This results from too little calcium is deposited into your bones so they become brittle and easy to break
What is Osteoporosis
400
This type of bone cell functions to lay down new bone minerals
What is an Osteoblast
400
This is another name for the "growth plate"
What is Metaphysis or Epiphyseal disk
400
This is another name used for Haversian system
What is Osteon
400
This is the space in the center of a bones diaphysis
What is Medullary cavity
400
This hormone is produced by the parafollicular cells of the thyroid
What is Calcitonin
500
This is a very cavernous arrangement of bone material that is filled with red marrow
What is Spongy bone
500
The ends of long bones are covered with this
What is Hyaline cartilage or Articular cartilage
500
This is the center of an osteon. It contains a longitudinal foramen containing blood vessels and nerves
What is Central canal
500
When the embryonic mesenchymal cells differentiate into osteoblasts, they for a center of
What is Ossification
500
This hormone increases osteoclastic activity.
What is Parathyroid hormone