Skeletal System Flashcards
Skeletal System: Function
- Supports the body
- Protects soft body parts
- Produces blood cells
- Stores minerals and fat
- Permits flexible body movement
Skeletal System: Tissue
Connective:
- Bone
- Cartilage
- Ligaments (connect bone –> bone
Bone Anatomy: Diaphysis
- Shaft of bone
- medullary cavity
- contains yellow marrow
- walls = compact bone
- lined with endosteum- a thin, vascular
membrane
Bone Anatomy: Periosteum
Fibrous connective tissue that covers a long bone
- Contains blood vessels, lymphatic vessels, and nerves
Bone Anatomy: epiphysis
- Composed mainly of spongy bone
- red marrow
- Coated in hyaline cartilage (articular cartilage)
Compact bone: Osteons
Tubular units in bone
Compact bone: lacunae
- Tiny chambers arranged in concentric circles around a central canal
- Matrix fills space in between lacunae
Bone cells: Osteocytes
Mature bone cells that lie in lacunae
Compact bone: canaliculus
Tiny canals that run through the matrix in bone
Spongy bone: trabeculae
thin plates that are unorganized throughout spongy bone
Spongy bone
- Unorganized appearance
- Designed for strength
- Lighter than compact bone
Cartilage
- Weaker than bone
- More flexible than bone
- Gel-like matrix
- Contains collagenous and elastic fibers
- No nerves
- No blood vessels
- Slow to heal
Cartilage: chondrocytes
Cells that lie within lacunae that are irregularly grouped
Cartilage: Type #1
- Hyaline –> firm, glassy appearance, many collagen fibers
* Found at end of long bones, in the nose, ends of the ribs, larynx, and trachea
Cartilage: Type #2
- Fibrocartilate –> stronger than hyaline
- matrix has wide rows of thick, collagenous fibers
- able to withstand tension and pressure
- found where support = #1
- Found in the disks between vertebrae & cartilage of the knee
Cartilage: Type #3
- Elastic –> more flexible
- matrix contains more elastin fibers
- found in ear flaps and epiglottis
Fibrous Connective Tissue
- Makes up ligaments and tendons
- Contains rows of fibroblast cells separated by bundles of collagenous fibers
of Bones in the Body
206
Axial Skeleton
- Midline of the body:
- Skull
- Hyoid bone
- Vertebral column
- Rib cage
Major Cranial Bones (& Location)
- Frontal bone (forehead)
- Parietal bone (top/base of the head)
- Temporal bone (sides/temples)
- Occipital bone (lower back of the head)
Skull: Foramen Magnum
Large opening through which the spinal cord passes
Skull: Sphenoid bone
- Bat shaped
- extends across the floor of the cranium
- all other bones articulate with it
SkSkull: Sinuses
Air spaces lined by mucus membrane
- reduce the weight of the skull
- give a resonant sound to the voice
Facial Bones
- Mandible (lower jaw)
- Maxillae (upper jaw)
- Zygomatic bones (cheekbones)
- Nasal bone (bridge of nose)
Hyoid Bone:
- Only bone not articulated with another bone
- Anchors the tongue
- Site for attachment of muscles used for swallowing
- Fractured hyoid bone –> suspicious death
Vertebral Column
- 33 vertebrae
- 4 curvatures
- Intervertebral foramina: spinal nerves branch from spinal column and travel through these holes
- Processes: MA that move the vertebral column