Chapters 6-8 Bones Flashcards
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Axial skeleton
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Bones of the skull, ribcage, and vertebral column
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Skeletal cartilage
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Stays flexible in points but mustly ossifies to create bone
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Appendicular skeleton
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Bones of the upper and lower shoulder, limbs, and hips
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Long bones
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Longer than wide, have 2 ends, all limb bones except knee cap, wrist, and ankle
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Short bones
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Cube shaped bones of wrist ankle, sesamoid bone
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Flat bones
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Flat areas of bone, stermum, ribs and skull
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Irregular bones
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Bones with complicated shapes, vertibrae, mandible, hip
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Compact bone
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Dense smooth solid outer layer
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Spongey bone
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Internal compact bone, contains open spaces
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Ossification
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The changing of cartilage to bone
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Fracture
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Break in bone
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Osteoporosis
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Bone loses density (calcium and minerals) and becomes easy to break
