Chapter 7 Review Flashcards
Tough connective tissues structures that attach bones to bones
Ligaments
Manufacture blood cells
Hematopoiesis
The formation of bone by osteoblasts
Ossification
Attach muscle to bone
Tendons
Connective tissue consisting chiefly of fat cells
Yellow bone marrow
Richly supplied with blood and consists of blood cells and their precursors
Red bone marrow
Disease caused by deficiencies int the minerals calcium and phosphorus or by deficiencies in vitamin d and sunlight
Rickets
The bones fail to ossify, resulting in soft, weak bones that are easily broken
Osteomalacia
The bone protrudes through the skin or if skin is not perforated
Open or compound
An incomplete fracture
Green stick fracture
Are small rounded bones
Sesamoid bones
Unique component of the axial Skelton b/c it has no articulations with other bones
Hyoid bone
The cervical vertebrae are the smallest vertebrae. The first one of two
Atlas
Second vertebrae of the cervical vertebraes
Axis
Abnormal accentuated lumbar curvature
Lordosis
Swayback