What are the 6 components of the skeletal system?
Functions of the skeletal system?
2 minerals stored in the bone?
Calcium and phosphate
How many bones in the adult human body?
206
More or less bones in children?
More
What are the 2 parts of the skeletal system? Describe each.
List the 4 parts of the axial skeleton.
List the parts of the appendicular skeleton.
What are bones?
Organ-calcified, living, connective tissue
3 types of cells in bone? What does each do?
What are the 3 constituents of bone?
What causes an osteoblast to mature into an osteocyte?
When it has formed all of the bone it could
How does the number of osteocytes in our bones change as we age?
Increases
How does the number of osteoblasts in our bones change as we age?
Decreases
What 2 hormones regulate the blood concentration of calcium? How do they work?
What bone cell type does growth hormone affect?
Activates osteoblasts
What bone cell type does estrogen affect?
Inhibits osteoclasts
What bone issue does menopause cause?
Osteoporosis (loss of bone density) because osteoclasts are no longer inhibited by estrogen
Describe the outside vs inside of bones?
Outside: dense - little to no space between matrix and cells Inside: less dense
What 4 hormones affect bone cells?
What are the 2 bone types?
Describe compact bone.
Outer shell of all of the bones that is more dense
% weight of bone formed by compact bone?
80%
Function of compact bone?
Bone strength and rigidity