Skeletal Chapter 7 Flashcards
How many bones in an adult human body?
206
What is a Osteoblast
A type of bone cell used to lay down boney material
What is an Osteroclast
A type of bone cell used to carve and shape boney material
What is the Most important type of cell in the skeletal system?
Osteocyte
What is the Lamella
One of serval rings in a osteon
What is the Lacuna
Site where bone cells are stored
What is the Canaliculi
The site where bone cells travel
The ends of a long bone are called?
Epiphyses
What is the Diaphysis?
Central shaft of the long bone
Which layer is the periosteum
Outer layer around the bone
Which layer is Endosteum?
Inner layer around the bone
How many vertebrae are found in the Adult spinal column?
Cervical-7
Thoracic-12
Lumbar-5
Sacrum-1 (5fused)
Coccyx - 1 (4fused)
What is a comminuted fracture
Breaks that produce many fractures
Do the synarthroses joint move
No movement
(Examples: fusing of the skull, first pair of ribs and sternum)
True or false
In cartilage the fibers are embedded in a firm gel instead of a calcified substance as in bones
True