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Functions of skeletal system
Support body Protection internal organs Calcium Homeostasis blood cell production
What is the most abundant mineral in the human body That interacts with muscular system to provide movement
Calcium
The nervous system protects what
The spinal cord
Cardiovascular system provides what
Blood cells
What system absorbs calcium
Digestive
The trochanter is located where
The femur
What is depression in the bone
Fosa
What is the difference in long and short bone
It is longer than wide
What has passages of blood vessels and nerves
Framina
The medullary cavity contains what
Bone marrow
The different types of long bone are
Flat, long, short, irregular and sesamoid
What is between epiphysis and diaphysis
Metaphysis
What is in long bone
Articular cartilage
Osteoblasts
Build bone
Osteocytes
Live in the lucoona
Osteogenetic
The cells change into osteoblasts
Osteone
Happens during compact bone
Characteristics of compact bone
Matrix is dense
Contains salt
Contains osteones
Matrix of bone contains osteocytes
Spongy bone does what
Reduces load on muscles and use on skeleton
Most commonly fracture bone
Clavical
Strongest/ longest bone is
Femur
Cell of sella turcica
Houses the pituitary glands
Transverse fracture
Goes across long axis
College fracture
Wrist
Compression fracture
Vertical stress
Comminuted fracture
Shattered bone fragments