Lab 4 - The Axial Skeleton Flashcards
What is Adult bone composed of?
- Compact bone
2. Spongy bone
As a connective tissue, bone has an abundant ___________________ _________, primarily composed of calcium salts surrounding collagen fibers.
Extracellular Matrix
What is the Central (Haversian) Canal?
The part of the bone that contains the blood supply, lymphatic vessels, and nerves in the shaft of the bone
What is the lacunae?
The space that contains the osteocyte that are connected by canaliculi
What is an osteocyte?
Osteocyte is the mature bone cell formed when osteoblasts becomes embedded in the matrix that is secreted and the matrix hardens.
What is concentric lamellae?
Calcified matrix that surrounds the central canal containing blood vessels.
What are canaliculi?
Microscopic canals between lacunae, composed of ossified bone, they serve as the communication from osteocyte to osteocyte and are filled with ECF.
What are trabeculae?
Microscopic tissue of spongy bone with spaces filled with red bone marrow, this is where RBC develop
How do osteocytes, osteoblasts, and osteoclasts work together to maintain the skeletal system?
Osteoblasts work to build up the bone by secreting the extra cellular matrix, collagen fibers. This matrix then hardens and becomes a mature osteocyte, making the bones strong and helping maintain the cell metabolism. Osteoclasts work to break down old bone tissue to make room for new osteoblasts to make more bone cells and tissue
What is the function of the osteocytes cytoplasmic extensions
Used for exchange of nutrients and waste through gap junctions
Name three areas in the skeleton that spongy bone can be found?
- Ends of long bones
- Inside flat bones
- Inside vertebrae
Where do the osteocytes of spongy bone obtain their nutrients and oxygen since there is no central canal?
Nutrients and oxygen are obtained through the trabeculae through their cytoplasmic extensions and canaliculi.
How does the structure and function of red bone marrow differ from yellow bone marrow?
Red one marrow is found mainly in flat bones and is used for production of RBCs, whereas yellow bone marrow is composed of mainly adipose connective tissue and produces fat, cartilage, and bone
Name at least four adult bones that contain red bone marrow?
- Sternum
- Femur
- Tibia
- Humerus
- Scapula
- Vertebrae
What is the epiphysis?
The end of long bone.
What is the diaphysis?
The shaft or the central part of long bone
What is the periosteum?
The tough outer membrane covering the bone but not cartilage
What is the endosteum?
Thin vascular membrane of connective tissue that lines the inner surface of the bony cavity that forms the medullary cavity of long bones
What is the medullary cavity?
The central cavity of the diaphysis where red and yellow bone marrow is stored
What is the epiphyseal line or plate?
Hyaline cartilage plate in metaphysics in lone bone - where growth of long bones occurs in children
Name four functions of the skeletal system?
- Support
- Protection
- Attachment site for muscles making movement possible
- Storage of calcium and phosphate - minerals
- Blood cell production in red bone marrow
- Energy storage in yellow bone marrow
Name the two sections the skeleton is arranged into
- Axial skeleton
2. Appendicular skeleton
What does the axial skeleton consist of? 5
- Skull
- Vertebrae
- Sternum
- Ribs
- Hyoid bone
What does the appendicular Skeleton consist of?
- Pectoral girdle
- Pelvic girdle
- Upper limbs
- Lower limbs
What is a foramen?
An opening, hole, or passageway for something such as blood vessels
What is a fossa?
Shallow depression of hollow
What is a meatus?
Passage or opening leading to the interior
What is a process?
Projections from a larger body
What is a condyle?
A rounded protuberance at the end of a bone and or joints
What is a crest?
A ridge of a bone
What is a facet?
Joints where two or more bones are joined
What is a head in terms of surface markings?
A large projections from a bone, like the head of the humerus
Name the two subdivisions of the skull bones.
- Cranial bones
2. Facial bones
How many bones form the walls and orbit of the cranial cavity?
8 cranial bones form the walls and orbit of the cranial cavity
Name the eight bones?
- Frontal bone
- Parietal (2)
- Ethmoid
- Sphenoid
- Temporal (2)
- Occipital.
How many bones make up the orbit and sinuses?
14
Name 8 of the bones
- Mandible
- Maxilla
- Vomer
- Palatine
- Zygomatic
- Lacrimal
- Nasal
- Inferior nasal concha
Name a surface marking on the frontal bone and what is its function?
Supraorbital Foramen - allows passage of blood vessels and nerves
Name 4 surface markings of the ethmoid bone
- Cristina Galli
- Cribriform plate
- Perpendicular plate
- Olfactory foramina
What does the crista galli do?
It projects from the cribriform plate of the ethmoid. The olfactory bulbs lie on either side of the crista galli
Also an attachment point for the meninges that enclose the brain
What is the function of the cribriform plate?
Form part of the nasal septum and the roof of the nasal cavity, lies on either side of the crista galli
What is the function of the perpendicular plate?
Is the first portion of the ethmoid bone, it has a thin median plate of bone that forms the superior part of the nasal septum
What is the olfactory foramina?
A hole to allow passage of the olfactory nerve
Name two surface markings of the occipital bone?
- Occipital condyle
2. Foramen magnum