Skeletal System: Cartilage and Bone Flashcards
What are the basic components of the skeletal system?
As well nerves, blood vessels, and epithelial tissue (connective tissues)
What are the three types of cartilage?
What are the characteristics of hyaline cartilage?
What are some common locations?
Give the description, function, and location of hyaline cartilage. Describe the cartilage on a microscopic level.
What are the characteristics of elastic cartilage?
What are some common locations?
Give the description, function, and location of elastic cartilage. Describe the cartilage on a microscopic level.
What are some characteristics and locations of fibrocartilage?
What is the fibrocartilage of a intervertebral disk?
How is cauliflower ear formed?
What are the functions associated with bones and the skeleton?
Are bones organs?
Yes. Why?
What are the two types of bone? Where are they generally located?
What are spongy bone and compact bone good for? (Different reasons for each)
What is the structure of spongy bone?
What is the structure of compact bone?
What is the description, function, and location of compact bone?
What is the structure of the osteon?
In the center of the lamellae is a central canal called the ________ . What are the characteristics of this canal?
Red blood cells are too large to pass through _______. Therefore nutrients must diffuse through ________ through _______.
What are the two other types of lamellae?
Where are they located?
Collagen fibers in adjacent lamella run ______ to one another. Why is this important?
Gives strength and flexibility
What are the four classifications of bone by shape?
What do the structures of flat, irregularm, and short bones have in common?
What are the three main structures of a long bone?
Proximal epiphysis
Diaphysis
Distal epiphysis
What are the characteristics of the epiphyses?
What are the characteristics of the diaphysis?
What are the connective tissue membranes in long bones?
What are the characteristics of the periosteum?
What are the characteristics of the endosteum?
What is responsible for arterial supply to long bones? Characteristics?
What is the epiphyseal plate? What is the epiphyseal line?
What is the organization of the cartilage within the epiphyseal plate of a growing long bone?
What direction does the diaphysis grow?
What is intramembranous ossification? With what age group is this found?
What are the 4 steps of intramembranous ossification?
What are the mechanisms of fetal bone growth?
What are the five stages of endochondral ossification of a long bone?
What are the major events of bone remodeling?
What is the structure of an osteoclast?
What are the stages of bone fracture healing? What connective tissue is involved?
What is osteoporosis?
What is osteomalacia?
What is vitamin D’s role in bones?
What are the differences between osteoporosis and osteomalacia?
What is Paget’s Disease?
What is the difference between the axial and appendicular skeleton?
