FINAL Flashcards
bone is a tissue or organ
tissue
bone tissue organized into …
organs
stimuli that affect bones
biomechanics, nutritional, degeneration, disease, trauma
bone replaces itself every ____ years
8
Wolff’s law
how bone responds to its mechanical environment (gravity)
tubular bones
long and short
arms, legs, clavicle, hands, feet
flat bones
protect organs
skull, sternum, ribs, scapula
irregular bones
tarsal, carpal, vertebrae, hyoid, ear ossicles, pubis and ischium
sesamoid bones
embedded in tendons
patella, pisiform
bone function
mineral storage, protect organs, attachment sites, blood protection (red), fat storage (yellow)
hemopoietic marrow
production of red blood cells (erythrocytes)
fatty marrow
fat storage, yellow
of bones at birth
270
of bones as adult
206
last bone to fully fuse
clavicle @ 25
earliest bone to form
ear ossicles
two parts of skeleton
skull (mandible + hyoid)
post cranial skeleton
post cranial skeleton parts
axial = trunk
appendicular = limbs
endocranial
inner cranial vault
ectocranial
outer cranial vault
flexion
decreases anglee
extension
increases angle
dorsiflexion
foot away from ground (heels)
plantarflexion
foot towards ground (tiptoes)