Skeletal System: Cartilage and Bone

Question 1

What are the basic components of the skeletal system?

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As well nerves, blood vessels, and epithelial tissue (connective tissues)

Question 2

What are the three types of cartilage?

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Question 3

What are the characteristics of hyaline cartilage?

What are some common locations?

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Question 4

Give the description, function, and location of hyaline cartilage. Describe the cartilage on a microscopic level.

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Question 5

What are the characteristics of elastic cartilage?

What are some common locations?

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Question 6

Give the description, function, and location of elastic cartilage. Describe the cartilage on a microscopic level.

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Question 7

What are some characteristics and locations of fibrocartilage?

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Question 8

What is the fibrocartilage of a intervertebral disk?

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Question 9

How is cauliflower ear formed?

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Question 10

What are the functions associated with bones and the skeleton?

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Question 11

Are bones organs?

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Yes. Why?

Question 12

What are the two types of bone? Where are they generally located?

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Question 13

What are spongy bone and compact bone good for? (Different reasons for each)

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Question 14

What is the structure of spongy bone?

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Question 15

What is the structure of compact bone?

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Question 16

What is the description, function, and location of compact bone?

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Question 18

What is the structure of the osteon?

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Question 19

In the center of the lamellae is a central canal called the ________ . What are the characteristics of this canal?

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Question 20

Red blood cells are too large to pass through _______. Therefore nutrients must diffuse through ________ through _______.

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Question 21

What are the two other types of lamellae?

Where are they located?

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Question 22

Collagen fibers in adjacent lamella run ______ to one another. Why is this important?

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Gives strength and flexibility

Question 23

What are the four classifications of bone by shape?

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Question 24

What do the structures of flat, irregularm, and short bones have in common?

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Question 25

What are the three main structures of a long bone?

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Proximal epiphysis Diaphysis Distal epiphysis

Question 26

What are the characteristics of the epiphyses?

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Question 27

What are the characteristics of the diaphysis?

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Question 28

What are the connective tissue membranes in long bones?

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Question 29

What are the characteristics of the periosteum?

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Question 30

What are the characteristics of the endosteum?

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Question 31

What is responsible for arterial supply to long bones? Characteristics?

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Question 32

What is the epiphyseal plate? What is the epiphyseal line?

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Question 33

What is the organization of the cartilage within the epiphyseal plate of a growing long bone?

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Question 34

What direction does the diaphysis grow?

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Question 35

What is intramembranous ossification? With what age group is this found?

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Question 36

What are the 4 steps of intramembranous ossification?

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Question 37

What are the mechanisms of fetal bone growth?

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Question 38

What are the five stages of endochondral ossification of a long bone?

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Question 39

What are the major events of bone remodeling?

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Question 40

What is the structure of an osteoclast?

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Question 42

What are the stages of bone fracture healing? What connective tissue is involved?

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Question 44

What is osteoporosis?

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Question 45

What is osteomalacia?

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Question 46

What is vitamin D's role in bones?

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Question 47

What are the differences between osteoporosis and osteomalacia?

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Question 48

What is Paget's Disease?

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Question 49

What is the difference between the axial and appendicular skeleton?

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