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Bone Classification Flashcards

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What are the six more commonly used classifications of normal bone?

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Long bones, short bones, irregular bone, flat bones, paranasal sinuses or pneumatic bones and sesamoid bones

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What are the classifications given to abnormal bone stressed in spinal anatomy?

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Accessory bone and Heterotopic bone

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What is the name given to bone formed in a non-bone location

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Heterotopic bone

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What is the name given to bone formed from existing bone?

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Accessory bone

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What is the primary characteristic of short bones?

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They are essentially cuboidal

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What are examples of short bones?

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Most of the bones of the carpus and tarsus

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What are examples of flat bone?

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Sternum and parietal bone

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What is the characteristic of pneumatic bone?

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Air space within the bone

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What are examples of pneumatic bone?

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Frontal, ethmoid, maxilla, sphenoid, temporal

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What bones contain paranasal sinuses?

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Frontal, ethmoid, sphenoid, maxilla

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What are characteristics of a sesmoid bone?

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the bone develops WITHIN a tendon

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What are consistent examples of a sesamoid bone?

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Patella and pisiform

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What are examples of heterotopic bone?

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Calcifications in the pineal gland, heart, ligaments

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What are examples of accessory bone?

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Para-articular processes and bony spurs of the vertebrae

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What is the characteristic feature of a long bone?

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It is longer than it is across (length greater than breadth)

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What are the names given to the parts of a long bone?

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The diaphysis (Shaft) and typically 2 epiphyses (extremities)

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What are examples of long bones?

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Humerus, radius, ulna, femur, tibia, and fibula

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What are flat bone?

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Thin layer of spongy bone is sandwiched between to layers of compact bone

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What is the name given to the spongy bone of a skull?

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Diploe

20
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What is the characteristic of irregular bone?

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Numerous projections or irregular outlines

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What are examples of irregular bone?

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The vertebrae and innominate bones

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