Bones
These are cells that break down bone cells for growth or repair.
What are osteoclasts?
Your neck has this type of joint.
What is pivot?
These are the 4 types of tissue.
What are epithelial, tissue, cardiac, and muscle?
This is the definition of homeostasis.
What is the maintenance of stable, internal conditions despite external changes.
This material is found inside the bone and makes blood cells.
What is red bone marrow?
Your knee has a ____________ joint which allows it to move back and forth.
What is hinge joint?
This the opposing muscle of the agonist or prime mover.
What is the antagonist?
Your heart is _____________ to your liver.
What is superior?
Wound healing and uterine contractions follow increasing intensity of processes known as this.
What is positive feedback?
These are the four types of bone shapes.
What are long, flat, short, and irregular?
A joint that has a capsule full of fluid is called this.
What is a synovial joint?
This is the name of the model for how muscle tissue moves.
What is the sliding filament model?
Muscle contractions that do not involve movement are called this.
What is isometric?
Reverses a stimulus to maintain homeostasis
What is negative feedback?
These are the two names of the areas of a long bone. [Hint: one has a plate named after it.]
What are epiphysis and the diaphysis?
Your shoulder has this type of joint.
What is ball and socket joint?
These are the 4 characteristics of muscle.
What are excitability, contractility, extensibility, and elasticity?
This type of tissue is divided into loose and dense.
What is connective tissue?
Bones can behave as endocrine organs by releasing these chemical messengers. Give an example.
What are hormones?
Regulate insulin, calcium and phosphate storage, vitamin D levels
These are the 3 types of cartilage.
What are hyaline, fibrocartilage, and elastic?
The connection between your ribs and sternum is this type of joint.
What is cartilaginous?
These are the 3 layers of muscle tissue.
What are epimysium, perimysium, and endomysium?
This is the term for the bones of the body that are attached to the axial skeleton.
What is appendicular?
Loss of bone density and the presence of compression fractures in the vertebrae can lead to this in older people.
What is kyphosis?