Bones Flashcards
Forms of bones
Hard, compact, ivory bones
Spongy, trabecular, cancellous bones
Long bones
Have 2 ends and a shaft
long bones of upper and lower limbs
Short bones
carpal bones of the hand and tarsal bones of the foot
Flat bones
Thin plate of bones as vault of the skull and scapula
Irregular bones
No definte shape as vertebra and bones of the base of the skull
Pneumatic bones
Bones containing air, paranasal sinuses of skull
Sesamoid bones
Nodules of ones lying inside tendons like patella
Sutural bones
Small bones lying inside sutures of the skull
Arterial blood supplyb of the bones
Epiphyseal arteries suplying the epiphysis
Metaphyseal arteries supplying the metaphysis
Nutriet artery supplying the bone marrow
Periosteal artery supplying compact bone of the shaft
Nerve supply of bones
The bone itself is insesitive to pain
Periosteum is highly innervated
Number of bones in axial skeleton
80
Number of bones in appendicular skeleton
126
Single bones of the skull
Occipital bone
Frontal bone
Sphenoid bone
Ethmod bone
Paied bones
Parietal bones
Temporal bones
Number of vertebra and number of its bones
33 vertebrae
26 bones
