Cartilage and Bone Connective Tissue

Question 0

What is osteology?

Answer 0

The study of bones

Question 1

What does skeleton mean?

Answer 1

Dried up

Question 2

What are the extra bones in the sutures of the skull called?

Answer 2

Sutual bones or wormian bones

Question 3

Bones that develop in tendons in response to stress as the tendons repeatedly move across a joint are called what?

Answer 3

Sesamoid bones

Question 4

Where does everyone have a Sesamoid bone?

Answer 4

At the anterior surface of the kneecap or patellae

Question 5

What is a semi-rigid connective tissue that is weaker than bone, but more flexible and resilient.

Answer 5

Cartilage

Question 6

What is a chondroblast?

Answer 6

An immature cartilage producing cell. Matures into a chondrocyte

Question 7

What does a chondrocyte do?

Answer 7

Maintains the matrix of the cartilage and ensures that it remains healthy and viable

Question 8

What does avascular mean?

Answer 8

Not penetrated by blood vessels

Question 9

Why doesn’t cartilage heal well?

Answer 9

Its avascular so there isn’t a blood supply to it

Question 10

Major functions of cartilage

Answer 10

Supporting soft tissue, provides a gliding surface at articulations, provides a model for the formation of most bones in the body

Question 11

What are the types of cartilage?

Answer 11

Hyaline cartilage, fibrocartilage, elastic cartilage

Question 12

What is the most abundant cartilage type?

Answer 12

Hyaline cartilage

Question 13

What cartilage is found in the nose, trachea, portions of the larynx, the articular cartilage on bones, Growth in growing bones, and the fetal skeleton?

Answer 13

Hyaline cartliage

Question 14

Where it’s Hyaline cartilage found?

Answer 14

In the nose, trachea, portions of the larynx, the articular cartilage on bones, growth plates in growing bones, and the fetal skeleton.

Question 15

Which cartilage supplies support and flexibility and resilience, and it’s extracellular matrix has a translucent appearance?

Answer 15

Hyaline cartilage

Question 16

What does Hyaline mean?

Answer 16

Translucent appearance

Question 17

What cartilage has an extracellular matrix with numerous thick collagen fibers that help resist both stretching and compression?

Answer 17

Fibrocartilage

Question 18

Where is fibrocartilage found?

Answer 18

Between the vertebrae and where the pubic bones join at the pubic symphysis

Question 19

What cartilage is between the vertebrae and where the pubic bones join at the pubic symphysis

Answer 19

Fibrocartilage

Question 20

Which cartilage contains highly branched elastic fibers within its avascular extracellular matrix?

Answer 20

Elastic cartilage.

Question 21

Where is elastic cartilage found?

Answer 21

The external ear, the ear canal, the epiglottis that guards the entrance to the larynx

Question 22

What are the tissue types of bones?

Answer 22

Vascular, nervous, connective, muscular, cartilage, and osseous

Question 23

What is calcification

Answer 23

A process of making bones sturdy and rigid because of deposits of in minerals in the matrix

Question 24

What are the functions of bones?

Answer 24

Support and protection, movement, hemopoisis/hematopoiesis, and storage of mineral and energy reserves

Question 25

What is hemopoiesis?

Answer 25

The process of blood cell formation

Question 26

What is hematopoiesis?

Answer 26

The process of blood cell formation

Question 27

What bones in adults have active red marrow?

Answer 27

Flat bones of the skull, vertebrae, ribs, sternum, bones of the pelvis (ossa coxae), proximal ends of the long bones

Question 28

What happens to inactive red marrow in adults?

Answer 28

It turns into fatty tissue called yellow bone barrow