Ossification Flashcards
What happens to be new cartilage
It is continuously benign formed
What opens up a medullary cavity/marrow
Enclosed cartilage being digested away
Build bones
Osteoblasts
What happens to older cartilage during ossification.
It ossifies or becomes bone
What happens to the cartilage for it to become bone
Gets covered by a bone matrix (collar) and then it is broken down
Fetus has what type of bone
Cartilage bones enclosed by “bony” bones
Bones do what until growth stops
Remodeled and lengthened
What two factors effect he remodeling of bones
Blood calcium levels and pull of gravity and muscles on skeleton
What replaces cartilage with bone
Osteoblasts
PTH
Parathyroid hormone
What does the PTH do?
Signal to break down bones to get more calcium in blood if needed
How does gravity and muscles effect noes
Determines where bone matrix is to be broken down or formed so the skeleton can stay strong
Appositional growth
Bones grow in width
What is growth controlled by
Hormones and during puberty sex hormones
When does bone growth end
Adolescence when epiphyseal plates are converted to bone