Skeletal Flashcards
What is the difference between red marrow and yellow marrow? 
Red marrow: produces blood cells
Yellow marrow: stores fats
What happens to bone if the mineral salt content is too high? 
Bone becomes brittle
What happens to bone if the mineral salt content is too low?
Bone becomes soft & bendy
Cells that dissolve bone extracellular matrix 
Osteoclasts
Cells that secrete bone extracellular matrix
Osteoblasts
True or False
Compact bone contains trabeculae
False
True statement:
Lacunae
Osteons
Lamellae
Within _____, the structural unit of compact bone, cells called _____ live in small spaces called _____ and communicate with each other through numerous small channels called _____.
Osteons
Osteocytes
Lacunae
Canaliculi
Which bones have spongy bone and which have compact bone?
All bones have both
Difference between trabeculae and osteons
Trabeculae are spongy bones and look like a lattice while osteons are compact bone and are cylindrical shape
Locations where red bone marrow is preserved into adulthood 
Hips, ribs, sternum, vertebrae
Cube-shaped bones in the wrist and ankle are what kind of bones?
Short bones
Cranial bones, sternum, ribs, and scapulae are what type of bones?
Flat bones
Bones touch other bones where?
Articular cartilage
What is the shaft or body of a long bone?
Diaphysis
Endochondral ossification in the diaphysis spread from…
The middle towards the end
Embryonic mesenchyme gives rise to bone directly in _____ ossification, which _____ involve an epiphyseal plate.
Intramembranous, does not
The cell responsible for the growth in length of long bones is what?
Chondrocyte
Complete fracture
Bone entirely broken