Skeletal System Flashcards
What are the 6 functions of bones?
Support and shape, Movement, Protection, Storage of Minerals, Storage of Lipids, Blood cell production
In the storage of minerals, what are the minerals?
Calcium and Phosphate.
What does Calcium do?
It helped with nervous and muscular system function
What does Phosphate do?
Hardens bone, along with energy processing, its a component of nucleic acid, and modulates protein activity.
What are the parts of the skeletal system?
Bone, Cartilage, and Tendons/Ligaments
What are the 3 types of cartilage?
Hyalin, Elastic, and Fibrocartilage
What is the difference between the 3?
Elastic has the least collagen and more elastin, fibro has the most cartilage and is the strongest, which help it resist compression, and Hyaline is the median, but the most commonly found.
What are tendons made of?
They are cords of dense, regular Connective tissue
What is the function of tendons
Tendons: Connects muscles to bone to provide movement and stability
What is the function of ligaments
Connect bone to bone for stability
What are some examples of ligaments?
The MCL, ACL, PCL, and LCL of the knee
How is the skeleton broken up?
Into the Axial and Appendicular Skeleton, which are the skull, vertebrae, and thoracic cage vs. the pectoral girdle and arms, and the pelvic girdle and legs.
What are the 6 categories of bones?
Long, Short, Flat, Irregular, Sesamoid, and Wormian bones
What classifies a long bone?
Longer then they are wide, slender, and muscles are connected.
What classifies a short bone?
Roughly the same width and lenght
What classifies and flat bone?
Thin, parralell surfaces, protecting underlying organs.
What classifies a irregular bone?
Complex shape
What classifies a sesamoid bone?
They look like sesame seeds, and forms within a tendon due to friction
What classifies a Wormian bone?
It is a subset of flat bones, it is the suture bone, and in the middle of the suture.
Is the bone an organ?
Yes
What are the 2 types of bone tissue?
Spongy and compact bone
What are some of the traits of compact bone?
They are parallel osteons with haversian systems.
They have alot of strength in 1 direction, allowing them to withstand compression
In long bones, its superficial, in flat bones its both superficial and deep.
What are the parts of compact bone?
Haversian systems, Haversian canals, lamellae, canaliculi, Osteocytes within lacunae, and perforating(volkmann’s canal)
What are lamellae?
Rings of tissue that form each osteon