Skeletal System Test Flashcards
Bone that is longer than it is wife; has a shaft and two ends
Long bones
What are the functions of bones?
Support, protection of vital organs, movement, forms blood cells, stores fat and calcium
What are examples of long bones?
Humerus and phalanges
Cube like bones
Short bones
What are examples of short bones?
Carpals and your ankle bones
Bones that are thin flat and curved
Flat bones
Examples of flat bones?
Sternum ribs and most skull bones
Bones that don’t fit into the other classes
Regular bones
What are examples of irregular bones?
Vertebrae, coxal, heal, and some skull bones
What is the long axis or shaft of a long bone called?
The diaphysis
What does the diaphysis contain?
A thick color of compact bone around a middle cavity
What is the cavity that contains the fat or yellow marrow?
Medullary cavity
What are the ends of long bones called that are mostly spongy bone?
The epiphyses
The outer layer of the diaphysis that anchors points for tendons and ligaments and contains osteoblasts?
Periosteum
Bone forming cells?
Osteoblasts
The inner layer of the diaphysis that surrounds the cavity contains osteoclasts?
The endosteum
Bone destroying cells?
Osteoclasts
What surrounds the epiphysis and cushions ends and observe stress?
Cartilage
What type of phone is made of two plates of compact bone with spongy middle and contains red marrow in the cavities it also has projections for muscle attachment or projections to help form joints?
Flat bones
The bone tissue that is dance and looks smooth
Compact bone
The bone tissue that has lots of open space and contains flat rods a bone called Trabeculae
Spongy bone
What is arranged in Lamellae around the canal system of arteries and veins called Haversian Canals?
The matrix
Which direction do haversian canals run up the bone?
Longitudinally
What can now runs horizontally and Connects periosteum to the canals in the medullary cavity?
Volkmann’s Canal
One ring is made up of osteocytes with the little Chambers called lacunae
Osteon
Mature bone cells
Osteocytes
Caves
Lacunae
As bone cells grow they add concentric layers called what?
Lamellae
How are osteocytes connected to the haversian canals?
By tiny canals called canaliculi
What do canaliculi do?
Hello nutrients and waste exchange between cells and blood
A bone the brakes cleanly and does not penetrate the skin
Simple fracture
A bone in which the broken in protrudes through the skin and can cause possible infections?
Compound fracture
The bone fragments into many pieces in this generally happy ends with brittle bone elderly
Comminuted fracture
A crushed bone
Compression fracture
The broken portion of the bone is pressed inward
Depressed