Name that Bone
Your Collar Bone.
What is the clavicle?
Contain mostly compact bone but may have a large amount of spongy bone at the ends
What are long bones?
Functional unit bone
What is an osteon?
Root word meaning bone
What is Osteo?
Attaches muscle to bone?
Your Shin Bone
What is the Tibia?
Skull, ribs, sternum
What are flat bones?
the smooth, white tissue that covers the ends of bones where they come together to form joints.
What is Articular cartilage?
A membrane lining the inner surface of the bony wall also identified as the lining membrane of the Bone marrow cavity is endosteum;
What is Endosteum?
Attaches bones to bones
What are ligaments?
The bone that has an opening for the ear
What is the temporal bone?
Type of bone that do not fit into other bone classification categories
What are irregular bones?
a thin layer of cartilage that lies between the epiphyses and diaphysis, and is where the growth of long bones takes place
What is the epiphyseal Disk?
Fibrous membranes connecting the cranial bones
What are Fontanelles?
Brittle Bone Disease
What is osteogenesis imperfecta?
The butterfly bone
What is the Sphenoid?
Usually cube shaped
What are short bones?
Rings of the osteon
What are are lamellae?
Freely movable joints
What are synovial or diarthroses joints?
Disease of Vitamin D Deficiency; not common in the USA.
What is rickets?
Heel of your foot
What is the Calcaneus?
Give an example of each type of bone; must list bone and type
What is the
Femur/humerus/ulna/tibia: long bones,
Vertebrae/pelvis: Irregular
Skull/ribs/sternum: Flat Bones
carpals/tarsals: short bones
Located in the shaft and contains mostly yellow marrow
What is the medullary cavity?
Cartilaginous pads of tissue between the tibia and femur in knee joint
What is Mensicus?
Most common bone disease, Body stops making new bone due to lack of calcium, resulting in brittle bones and fractures
What is osteoporosis?