Chp 6 Skeletal System Flashcards
What composed the skeletal system (SS)?
- Bones of Skelton
- Cartilage
- Ligaments
- Connective Tissue
What are the 5 primary functions of the skeletal system?
- Support
- Storage minerals and lipids
- Blood cell production
- Protection
- Leverage
What does the SS support?
- Entire body
* A framework for the attachment of soft tissue
What minerals and lipids does SS store?
- Calcium (most abundant)
* Yellow bone marrow
Where are the cells produced in SS?
• Red bone marrow
How does the SS provide protection?
- skeletal structures surround many soft tissues and organs
* ex. Ribs protect the lungs and heart
What does leverage of the SS mean?
• force generated by the Skeletal muscles that can change the magnitude and direction
How are bones classified?
• Shape
• Internal tissue organization
-Compact, spongy
• Bone markings
What are the 6 bone shapes?
- Sutural bones
- Irregular bones
- Short bones
- Flat bones
- Long bones
- Sesamoid bones
How are suture bones?
- small
- irregular bones
- “Wormain bones”
Where can you find Suture Bones?
• Between the flat bones of the skull
How are Irregular bones??
- Complex shapes
* notches and processes
Where can you find Irregular bones?
- examples include
- Vertebrae
- Coxal bones
- Pelvic bones
How are short bones?
- similar in length and width
* roughly cubed shaped
What are some examples of short bone?
- Carpals
* Tarsals
How are flat bones?
- Thin like a plate
* Parallel surfaces
Why are flat bones important?
• Protect underlying structures/ soft tissue
• serve as large surface area for tendon and ligament attachment
(Skeletal muscles)
Where can you find flat bones
- Cranial Bones
- Sternum
- Ribs
- Scapula
How are Long bones?
- longer than wide
- most common type of bone
- range from very large femur to small phalangeal bones
What are some examples of long bones?
- arm and forearm
- leg and thigh (largest, heaviest)
- Palm
- soles
- fingers
- toes
How are sesame if bones?
- small
* flat
Where are sesame if bones found?
- Develop inside tendons
- near joints at hands, knee, feet
- ex: patellas
- other places may vary
- up to 26 locations
What is another name for bone markings?
- surface features
* landmarks
What are the 3 types of bone markings?
- Elevation or projections
- Depression or groove
- Tunnels
What happens at elevations and projections?
- Tendons and ligaments attach
* Articulations with other bones
What happens at Depressions or groove?
• Something else fits along side the bone surface
What happens at the Tunnels?
• Blood and nerves enter bone
Landmark names for elevations and projections
- Process
2. Ramus
What are processes?
• projection or bump
What is a ramus?
- extension of a bone
* forms angle with the rest of the structure
Landmark names for openings
- Sinus
- Foramen
- Fissure
- Meatus
- Canal
What is a sinus?
- chamber w-in a bone
* normally filled with air
What is a foramen?
• rounded passageway for blood/ vessels and/or nerves
What is a fissure?
- deep furrow
- cleft
- slit
What is a meatus?
- passage or channel
* opening of a canal
What is a canal?
- duct
* channel
In what processes do ligaments and tendons attach?
- Trochanter
- Crest
- Spine
- Line
- Tubercle
- Tuberosity
WhT is a trochanter?
• large rough projection
What is the crest of a bone?
• prominent ridge
What is a spine?
• pointed process
What is the line?
• low ridge
What is a tubercle?
• small, rounded projection
What is a tuberosity?
• rough projection
Landmark names for depressions
- Sulcus
2. Fossa
What is a sulcus m?
• narrow groove
What is a fossa?
• shallow depression
What processes form where joints (articulations) occur between adjacent bones?
- Head
- Neck
- Facet
- Condyle
- Trochlea
What is the head?
• articulate end of epiphysis
What is the neck?
• narrow connection between epiphysis and diaphysis
What is the facet?
- small, flat
* articular surface
What is Althea condyle?
• smooth, rounded articulate process
What is a trochlea?
- smooth, grooved articulates process
* shaped mine a pulley
What are the 3 parts of a long bone?
- Epiphysis
- Diaphysis
- Metaphysis
What is the epiphysis?
• the wife part at each end of a long bone
What happens at the epiphysis?
• articulation a with other bones
Describe the epiphysis
- mostly spongy (cancellous) bone
* covered with compact bone (cortex)
What is the diaphysis?
• shaft of long bone
Describe the diaphysis
- heavy wall of compact bone
* has a central space
What is the central space of the diaphysis called?
• medullary (marrow) cavity
What is the metaphysis?
• where the diaphysis and the epiphysis meet.
What does the structure of a flat bone resemble?
• a sandwich of spongy bone between 2 layers of compact bone
What is the compact part of a flat bone called?
• cortex
WhT is the spongy part of a flat bone called?
• diploë
What type of CT is bone (osseous) tissue?
• dense, supportive CT
What kind of cells does bone tissue contain?
• specialized cells
What does bone tissue produce?
• solid matrix
What is the solid matrix made out of?
• Calcium salt deposits that organized around collagen fibers
What are the characteristics of bone tissue?
- dense matrix
- osteocytes
- canaliculi
- periosteum
What does the dense matrix contain?
- Calcium salts
- fibrous protein
- osteocytes (bone cells) w/in lacunae
Where are osteocytes found?
• organized around blood vessels
What are canaliculi?
• pathways for access to blood vessels
What does canaliculi do?
• exchange nutrients and waste
What is periosteum?
• cover of outer surfaces
What does periosteum consists of?
- outer fibrous layer
* inner cellular layer
What are the 2 components of bone matrix?
- Minerals
2. Matrix Proteins
How much of bone matrix is composed of minerals?
• 2/3 calcium phosphate
What happens when calcium phosphate reacts wth other minerals?
• forms crystals of hydroxyapatite
How much of bone matrix is made of proteins?
• 1/3 collagen
How much of bone mass is made up of bone cells?
• 2%
How many types of cells does bone contain?
•4
- Osteocytes
- Osteoblasts
- Osteogenic cells
- Osteoclasts