Basic Bones Flashcards

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What are accessory bones?

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Bones present in ancestral form
Can be mistaken for fractures
Bone not normally present in body, but present in some members of the population

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What is achondroplasia?

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Dominant mutant allele
Chondrocytes in metaphysis fail to multiply and enlarge
Long bones fail to enlarge, other bones unaffected

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What is the axial skeleton?

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Skull, vertebrae, ribs, sternum

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What is the appendicular skeleton?

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Limbs, limb girdles

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What is cancellous bone?

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‘Spongy’ bone within cortical shell

Supports bone marrow

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What is cortical bone?

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Hard layer of bone surrounding cancellous bone

Synonymous with compact bone

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What is the diaphysis?

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Forms the shaft of long bones

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What is the endosteum?

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Lines medullary cavities in long bones

Osteogenic

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What is the epiphysial growth plate?

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Interface between epiphysis and metaphysis
Cartilage made at epiphysial growth plate ossified at metaphysis
When fully developed, only articular cartilage remains

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What is the epiphysis?

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Forms the distal and proximal ends of bones

Can be pressure, traction epiphysis

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Pressure epiphysis

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Region of a long bone that forms articular surface

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Traction epiphysis

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Region of a long bone where tendon, ligament attaches

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Elastic cartilage

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Flexible, can be bent without damage

In epiglottis, pinnae

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Fibrous cartilage

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Can be compressed

Between vertebrae

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Hyaline cartilage

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On articular surface of bones

Forms precursor to skeletal system

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What is a long bone?

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Bone with a shaft, proximal and distal ends

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Medullary cavity

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Cavity within bones.

Contains bone marrow - can be yellow or red

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Metaphysis

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Part of diaphysis
Adjacent to epiphysis
At each end of a growing bone
Site of remodelling, high metabolic activity

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Nutrient artery

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Delivers nutrients, bone cells to cartilage model
Initiates ossification at primary site
Inserts into the nutrient foramen

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Location of nutrient foramen

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Cartilage skeleton, developing bones

Normally in the middle of developing bone

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Osteoblasts

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Cells that produce bone

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Osteoclasts

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Cells that break down, remodel bone

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Pneumatic bones

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Hollowed bones
Reduce weight of what would otherwise be a heavy bone
EG: sinuses in skull

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Periosteum

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Lines exterior of cotrical bone
Very vascularised, innervated
Outer fibrous layer
Inner osteogenic layer

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Sesamoid bones
Lie within a tendon | Sesame-seed shaped
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Trabecular bone
Synonymous with cancellous bone | Good at resisting static force
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``` Standard structure of a bone 1) 2) 3) 4) ```
1) Cancellous bone surrounded by cortical bone 2) Bone marrow is within medullary cavity of cancellous bone 3) Cortical bone surrounded by periosteum exteriorly, endosteum interiorly. 4) Periorsteum and endosteum are osteogenic
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Two broad types of ossification
Intermembranous ossification Endochondral ossification
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Example of intermembranous ossification
Skull formation
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``` Skull formation 1) 2) 3) 4) ```
1) Skull initially 1 cell thick 2) Cortical bone forms 3) Cancellous bone forms in between 4) Anterior fontanelle closes ~ 18 months
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Fontanelle
Area of skull not fully developed, to allow foetal skull to change shape in birth canal
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Endochondral ossification 1) 2)
1) Hyaline cartilage precursor to skeletal system | 2) Bone first appears ~6-8 weeks of life
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Primary centre
Where bone first appears
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Where does bone first appear when developing?
In middle of shaft. | Extends from middle to extremeties
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How does ossification begin?
Blood vessels induce osteoprogenitor cells (mesoderm) to become osteoblasts
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When do the periosteal and endosteal layers form?
Simultaneously
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How do the diaphysis, epiphysis and metaphysis form bones?
Diaphysis forms shaft of bone Epiphysis forms ends of bone Metaphysis ossifies chondrocytes fed through it by the epiphysial growth plate
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What are secondary epiphysial centres?
Signify that growth is still occurring Can be confused with a fracture If damaged, can prevent growth
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``` Blood supply to developing bones 1) 2) 3) 4) ```
1) Nutrient 2) Periosteal (to exterior of shaft) 3) Metaphysial 4) Ephiphysial
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When does bone first appear?
First 6-8 weeks of life