Anatomy - Broken arm Flashcards
What is compact bone?
Outer bone
What is trabecular bone?
Spongy middle part of a bone
Keeps bone as light as possible
A stage as reinforcement
What is the diaphysis?
Shaft of the bone
What is the epiphysis?
Head of the bone
What are the properties of bone?
- Reservoir of calcium and phosphate
- Composed of cells and ECM
- Bone marrow supports haematopoieisis
What are the properties of organic/osteoid matrix?
- Produced by osteoblasts
- Type 1 collagen
- Tensile and compressive strength
- Non-collagenous proteins mediated mineral deposition
What are the properties of inorganic matrix?
- Calcium phosphate
- Deposited in organic matrix
- 66% of dry weight of bone
- Hardness
What are 3 disorders related to bone composition?
- Brittle bone disease
- Osteopetrosis
- Osteoporosis
What are osteoprogenitor cells?
Stem cells forming osteoblasts
What are osteoblasts?
Immature bone cells that secrete organic components of matrix
What are osteocytes?
Mature bone cells formed from osteoblasts, which maintain matrix
What are osteoclasts?
- Multinucleated macrophages acting as scavengers of unwanted material
- Remove matrix and rebasorb bone
- Minerals are dissolved by acids
- Lysosomal enzymes reabsorb organic matrix
- Oestrogen reduces activity (linked to menopause)
What causes osteoid mineralisation?
Mineral precipitated from matrix of vesicles containing calcium and phosphate
What are the properties of immature osteoid mineralisation?
- Woven bone
- Haphazard fibre arrangement
- Mechanically weak
- Foetal development/fracture repair
What are the properties of nature osteoid mineralisation?
- Lamellar bone
- Remodelled woven bone
- Regukar parallel collagen
- Strong
- All adult bone
- Arranged as osteons