Function
2 functions of the Skeletal System
What is support and protection, body movement, blood cell formation, or storage of minerals?
The amount of bones normally in the skeleton.
What is 206?
The two types of bone marrow.
What are red and white?
The two types of bone.
What are compact and spongy?
Known as a moveable joint.
What is a synovial joint?
The system that the skeletal system works closely with to provide movement.
What is the muscular system?
The skull, vertebral column, sternum and sacrum are bones that make up this division of the skeletal system.
What is the axial skeleton?
This is another name for spongy bone.
What is cancellous bone?
These are mature bone cells.
What are osteocytes?
Immovable joint like the skull.
Cells that carry oxygen through your body.
What is a red blood cell?
The ends of the bone.
What is the epiphysis?
This is found on the ends of bones and helps to cushion during movement.
What is articular cartilage?
These canals provide passageways for blood vessels.
What are Haversian and Volkmann?
The medical name for a joint.
What is an articulation?
Cells that fight infections.
What is a white blood cell?
The shaft of the bone.
What is the diaphysis?
The medical name for growth plate.
Epiphyseal line or disk.
These are rings that form around the Haversian Canal.
What are lamella?
The hips and shoulders are this type of joint.
What is a ball and socket joint?
The medical name for blood cell formation.
The hollow chamber in the center of bone filled with marrow.
What is the medullary cavity?
This lines the medullary cavity.
What is the endosteum?
These cells "build" bone.
What are osteoblasts?
An example of a hinge joint.
What is the elbow or knee?