Intro
anatomy can be defined as...
What is the study of the structure, shape, and form of the body
The 4 main tissue types
What is epithelial, connective, muscle, nervous (organ)
System made up of bones, teeth, joints, and cartilage
What is the skeletal system
Bones that help support the trunk
What are long bones
The long shaft of bones
What is the diaphysis
physiology can be defined as...
What is the study of the functions of the body
The 3 muscle tissue types
What is skeletal, smooth, cardiac
The primary bone cell that maintains cellular activities
What are osteocytes
Cube like bones nearly equal in length and width
What are short bones
The ends of long bones
What is the epiphysis
Transports nutrients, oxygen, carbon dioxide, and hormones in the body?
What is red blood cells (blood)
The three types of epithelial tissues
What is squamous, cuboidal, columnar
The 5 classifications of bones
What is long, short, flat, irregular, sesamoid
The 3 main type of joints
What is fibrous, cartilaginous, and synovial
The two types of marrow
What is red and yellow
Specialized groups of cells that perform specific functions
What are tissues
The two types of dense regular connective tissues
What are tendons and ligaments
The two bones that make up the jaw
What is mandible and maxilla
The 3 types of synovial joints
What is ball and socket, hinge, and pivot
The 3 bone cell types
What are osteoblasts, osteocytes, osteoclasts
Living Structures that are able to grow and repair themselves
What are bones
Another name for fatty tissue
What is adipose tissue
5 Functions of the skeletal system
What is support, protection, movement, blood cell formation, energy storage
Process of cartilage turning into bone
What is endochondral ossification
Hardening of bone by calcium salts
What is calcification