Skeletal System Flashcards
What makes up the skeletal system
Supports surrounding tissues. Protects vital organs and soft tissues. Provides levers for muscle to pull on. Manufacturers blood cells. Stores mineral salts
Bone reabsorption and remodeling
Functions of osteoclast
Types of ossification
Intramembranous and endochondral
Send connective membranes replaced by calcium salts. Cranial bones.
Intramembranous
Bones develops inside Cartlidge environment all other bones of the body
Endochondral
Cavity containing osteocyte. Luncanae connected by canaliculi
Lacunae
The breaking of bone or associated Cartlidge. usually accompanied by an injury surrounding soft tissues like muscle or connective tissue.
Fracture
Shaft in the long bones. Consisting mainly of cacellous What is Spongy bone, and to extremities, Each called
Diaphysis
Thin bones found wherever need for extensive muscle attachment usually curved
Flat bones
Your forehead roof of nasal cavity, and the orbits, which are the bonies sockets that contain eyes
Frontal bone
What is happening in the occipital bone is significant about it
Foreman magnum through which the spinal cord connects with the brain
Epic, hard bone that forms part of the side and base of the skull
Temporal bone
What is interior portion of the base of the cranium
Sphenoid bone
What bones form the bridge of the nose
Nasal bones
What is the strongest bone of the jaw
Mandible
What are vertebrae
back bones
What is another name for Sternum
breast bone
What are the true ribs
Upper seven pairs articulate directly with the sternum
Largest bone. Its head is rounded and joined to the rest of the bone by its anatomic neck
Humerus
The largest or heaviest bone in the body. This single large bone of the upper leg is not in a vertical line with axis of the erect
Femur
Largest of the sesamoid bones. It is somewhat flat and triangular, lying right in front of the knee joint, and is enveloped within the tendon of the quadriceps femoral muscle
Patella
The bones of the ankle. The seven short tarsal bones resemble the carpal bones of the wrist but larger
Tarsal
