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Skeletal System Flashcards

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Components (4)

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Bones
Cartilage
Tendons
Ligaments

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Functions (5)

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Body Support 
Organ Protection
Body movement
Mineral Storage
Blood cell production
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Ligaments

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The connective tissue that holds bones together

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Tendon

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Strong bands of connective tissue that attach to bones

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What minerals are stored in the bones? (2)

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Calcium and phosphorus

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What other tissue is stored in bone cavities?

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Adipose - used as a source of energy if needed

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Types of cartilage (3)

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Hylanine cartalige
fibrocartilage
elastic cartilage

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Hyaline Cartliage as related to. bone (2)

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  1. Most bones in body start out as hyaline cartilage model

2. Bone growth and repair begin with hyaline cartilage

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Chondroblasts

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Immature hyaline cartilage cells

produce a matrix surrounding themselves

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Chondrocyte

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Mature chondroblasts with a matrix around it

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Lacuna

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The space occupied by a chondrocyte

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What makes up the chondrocyte matrix? (2)

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Collagen - for strength

Proteoglycans - trap water to make cartilage resilient

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Perichondrium

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  • a protective connective tissue that covers cartilage

- Blood vessels and nerves penetrate the outer layer of the perichondrium but do not enter the cartilage matrix

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Cartilage gets nutrients by

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Diffusion in cartilage matrix

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Layers of perichondrium

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Outer - dense irregular connective tissue with fibroblasts

inner layer - delicate, fewer fibers, contains condroblasts

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Articular cartilage

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Hyaline cartilage covers the ends of bones where they come together to form joints
Does not have perichondrium, blood, or nerves.

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17
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Types of cartilage growth

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appositional

interstitial

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18
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Appositional growth

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chondroblasts in perichondrium add new cartilage to the outside edge of existing cartilage

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Interstitial growth

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chondrocytes in the center of tissue divide and add more matrix in-between existing cells

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Bone Matrix composition

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35% organic - collagen and proteoglycans

65% inorganic material - calcium phosphate crystal hydroxyapatite

21
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Functional characteristics of bone (2)

as compared to reinforced concrete

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Flexible strength - collagen (steel bars)

Weight-bearing strength - mineral components (concrete)

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Bone cells (3)

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Osteoblasts
Osteocytes
Osteoclasts

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Osteoblasts

What they do, what differentiates them, and what 2 things do they produce?

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Bone-forming
Extensive endoplasmic reticulum; numerous ribosomes
Produce collagen and proteoglycans
Derived from osteochondral progenitor cells

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Matrix vesicles

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Released by Osteoblasts

high concentrations of Ca2+ and Po43-

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Ossification

What is it & how does it grow?

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formation of new bone by osteoblasts

Appositional growth

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Osteocytes

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An osteoblast that has secreted enough bone matrix to become surrounded by it
Relatively inactive
Retain connection to other osteocytes through cell extensions
Derived from osteoblasts

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Lacunae

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Spaces without matrix but occupied by osteocyte

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Canaliculi

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Spaces occupied by osteocyte cell extension

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Osteoclasts

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Bone-destroying cells
Reabsorb (breakdown) bone to get Ca2+ and phosphate ions (send the Ca2+ back to the blood)
Multi-nucleated
Derived form stem cells in red bone marrows

30
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Ruffled border

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Highly folded, differentiated cell membrane of the osteoclast

31
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Osteogenesis imperfecta

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Brittle Bone disorder

Mutations the make defective type I collagen

32
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Type 1 OI

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Type 1 OI > mild, most common. Caused by too little formation of normal type 1 collagen
- predisposed to fracture, spinal curvature, loose joins, brittle teeth, hearing loss, blue tint to the white of eyes

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Type 2 OI

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Most severe
Lethal within the first week of life
BReathing failure due to rib fractures

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Type 3 OI

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Bones that fracture easily, before and during birth

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Osteochondral progenitor cells

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Stem cells that can become osteoblasts or chondroblasts

Located in the inner layer of the perichondrium

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When does ossification occur?

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In a fetus
When growing
When repairing a fracture

37
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Woven bone

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The first type of bone formed
Weak
Collagen fibers randomly oriented in many directions

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Lamellar bone

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Mature bone

Collagen fibers lie parallel to one another

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Lamellae

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Layers of lamellar bone

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Spongy bone

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Appears porous, has less bone matrix, and more space

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Compact bone

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more bone matrix and less space

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Trabeculae

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Interconnecting rodes/ plate of the bone in spongy bone
Between the rods are bone marrow and blood vessels
No blood vessels penetrate trabeculae, so osteocytes must get nutrients through canaliculi

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Osteon

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The functional unit of a long bone, compact bone

Made of concentric rings of matrix

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Central canal

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Center of the “target” of the osteon

Where blood vessels enter the bone

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Concentric lamellae

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circular layers of bone matrix that surround central canal

46
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Circumferential lamellae

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Thin plates that extend around the bone

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Interstitial lamellae

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Between osteons

Remnants of concentric or circumferential lamellae that were removed during bone remodeling

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