Slide set 10 - bones Flashcards
What are the 2 qualities of bones that allows them to serve supportive and protective functions?
RIGIDITY
STRENGTH
What are functions of bones?
SUPPORT
- form framework (shape, alignment and positioning)
PROTECTION
- protect the structures they enclose
MOVEMENT
-Bones with joints function as levers that move
MINERAL STORAGE RESERVOIR
- for calcium, phosphorus
HEMATOPOESIS
- Blood cell formation
What are the 4 types of bones ? give example
Long bones (humerus, femur, tibia)
Short bones (tarsals, carpals)
Irregular bones (vertebrea)
Flat bones (skull, shoulder blade)
What material constitutes the majority of ECM?
What is the importance of bones being vascular?
Collagen
Since bone are very VASCULAR, regenerate quite well because of vascularity
What is the part of the bone that is the end of the long bone?
Epiphysis
What is the epiphyseal plate?
Site of bone growth
What is the part that is the shaft of the long bone?
Diaphysis
What are the 2 parts of the bone structre?
- Cancellous (spongy) bone => open space partially filled with needle like structures.
- Compact bone => dense, solid in appearance
What is the function of the daphysis? What is it made of?
Provide strong support without cumbersome weight
Thick and compact bone
What are characteristics of the epiphysis?
- Both ends of a long bone, made of cancellous bone filled with marrow
- Bulbous shape
- Function is to PROVIDE ATTACHMENT for muscles and give stability to joints
What is articular cartilage?
Layer of hyaline cartilage that covers the articular surface of epiphysis
What is hyaline cartilage?
Elastic cartilage, function is to cushion jolts and blows.
Absorbs chocs
What is the periosteum?
- Dense, white, fibrous membrane that covers bone
- Attaches tendons firmly to bones
- Contains cells that form and destroy bone
- Contains blood vessels important in GROWTH AND REPAIR
- Contains blood vessels that send branches into bone
- Essential for bone cell survival and bone formation
What are the 2 layors of bone? What are their characteristics?
Endosteum
-Thin epithelial membrane that lines medullary cavity
Medullary (or marrow cavity)
- Tubelike, hollow space in diaphysis
- Filled with yellow marrow in adult
true or false
There is no red marrow in spaces inside cnacellous bon of irregular and flat bones
False, there are fiew irregular and flat bones that are filled with red marrow
Large amounts of red bone marrow are found in flat bones like those of the ribs, pelvis and skull.
True or false
The extracellular matrix of bones is made up of organic component?
False, organic AND inorganic
What is part of the inorganic salts in the bone matrix?
HYDROXYAPATITE
- Highly specialized chemical crystals of calcium and phosphate
- responsible of the hardness of bones
CALCIUM CARBONATE (10%)
MAGNESIUM AND SODIUM
What is the organic matrix? what secretes it?
Secreted by bone cells (osteoblasts).
- Collagenous fibers and a mixture of protein and polysaccharides which forms a gelatinous material termed GROUND SUBSTANCE
What mineral gives bones mostly their rigidity?
Calcium
Why is gound substance important?
It is important in bone growth, repair and remodeling as it acts as a medium for the diffusion of nutrients, oxygen and metabolic waste
What are the 4 types of structure that make up each osteon? In what type of bone?
In compact bone!
Lacunae - space in which osteocytes are located between hard layers of lamella
Lamella- concentric rings that are, islands of calcified matrix
Canaliculi- ultrasmall canals radiating from the osteocytes and connecting them to each other and to the Haversian canal (part of network that allows excretion and absorbtion of nutrients)
Haversian canal => extends lenghtwise through the center of each osteon and contains blood vessels and lymphatic vessels
Describe the structure of the cancellous bone.
- No osteons
- Contains traveculae-needle
like bony spicules - Nutrients are delivered and waste products removed by diffusion through iny canaliculi (canals radiating from bone cells)
- Bony spicules are arranged along lines of stress enhancinf the bone’s strenght
What is the fait of osteogenic cells?
Differentiale and develop into OSTEOBLASTS
Osteoblasts synthesize and secrete collagen in matrix. They can become trapped in the matrix when it calcifies becomes OSTEOCYTES (mature bone cells)
What cells is not osteogenic? From what is it made?
Osteoclasts stem from macrophages
_______ deposit calcium as they create a new bone matrix. _______ break down bone matrix during bone resorption.
Osteoblasts
Osteoclasts
What organelles do osteoclasts have in large numbers?
- Mitochondria
- Lysosomes