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The Skeletal System Flashcards

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Sharpeys fibers

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Made up of collagen and anchors periosteum to underlying bone surface

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Where is a marrow cavity located?

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Within the diaphysis

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What covers epiphyses

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Hyaline cartilage/ articular cartilage

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Compact bone

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A hard dense outer region that allows the bone to resist a linear compression and twisting

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Where is spongy bone located

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Inside compact bone

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What does spongy bone allow long bones and bone marrow to do?

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Resist forces from many directions and provides a cavity for bone marrow

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What is the endosteum?

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A thin membrane covering inner surfaces of bone cells involved in the maintenance of bone homeostasis

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Epiphyseal lines

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Separate proximal and distal epiphyses from diaphysis

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What bones do not have diaphysess, epiphysess, medullary cavities, epiphyseal lines, or epiphyseal plates?

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Short, flat, irregular, and sesamoid bones

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10
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What are sinuses?

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Air sac filled spaces in some flat and irregular bones of the skull which reduced bone weight

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What fraction of blood supply does the long bone get from the periosteum?

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1/3

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Where does the remaining 2/3 of blood supply come from to get to the periosteum ?

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Nutrient arteries

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13
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What is red bone marrow?

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Loose connective tissue that supports islands of blood forming hematopoietic cells

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14
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As a person gets older the amount of red bone marrow they have…..

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Decreases

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15
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Where is red bone marrow in adults only found?

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Pelvis, proximal femur and humorous, vertebrae, ribs, sternum, clavicles, scapula, and some bones of the skull

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16
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Why do children need more red bone marrow?

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To assist in growth and development

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17
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What is yellow bone marrow composed of?

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Triglycerides, blood vessels, and adipocytes

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18
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What is inorganic matrix made up of in bone tissue?

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Minerals that make up 65% of the bones total weight

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19
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What is organic matrix made up of?

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Collagen fibers and usual ECM components

Makes up 35% of bones weight

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Periosteum

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A membrane composed of dense irregular collagenous tissue that is tick with blood vessels and surrounds the outer surface of long bones

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What is an osteoblast?

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In active bone cell found in the periosteum and endosteum

Bone building cells that perform deposition

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What is bone deposition?

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Osteoblast secrete organic matrix materials and assist in formation of inorganic matrix

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What are osteocytes?

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Mature bone cells that surround themselves with bone matrix in the Lacuna

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24
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What are osteoclasts responsible for?

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Responsible for bone resorption

25
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What is bone resorption?

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The process where cells secrete hydrogen ions in enzymes that break down bone matrix

26
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What are lamellae or concentric lamellae?

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Rings made up of thin layers of bone

27
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What is the central canal (haversian)?

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And endosteum lined hole found in the center of each osteon where blood vessels and nerves reside to supply bone

28
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What is a lucunae

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A small cavity found between lamellae

29
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What are trabeculae?

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Struts or ribs of bone

30
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When does bone formation occur?

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Embryo and fetus
Infancy, childhood, adolescence
Bone remodeling/repair

31
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What is fontaneis?

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Soft sport on a babies head

32
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What is bone remodeling?

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Continuous replacement of old bone tissue formation and loss

33
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What are the five factors affecting bone remodeling?

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Minerals, vitamins, hormones, activity level, diet

34
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What does vitamin A do?

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Stimulates osteoblasts

35
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What does vitamin C do

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Help synthesize collagen

36
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What does vitamin D do?

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Calcium resorption

37
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What do parathyroid hormones do?

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Stimulate osteoblasts

38
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What does calcitonin do?

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Stimulate osteoclasts

39
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Comminuted fracture?

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Splinted or crushed bone

40
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Greenstick fracture

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Partial fracture

41
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Impacted fracture

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One end of a fractured bone is forcefully driven into the interior of the other

42
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Spiral fracture

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Bone twists in opposite directions

43
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Simple fracture

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Bone breaks totally without breaking skin

44
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What is demineralization

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Loss of calcium and minerals from ECM

45
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What is brittleness?

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Decreased rate of protein synthesis and production of collagen fibers

46
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Paget’s disease

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Abnormal bone remodeling process

47
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Osteoporosis

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Deterioration of cartilage and bone

48
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Osteophytes (bone spurs)

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Bony projections developing along edges of bone/Near joints

49
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Hallux valgus (bunions)

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Enlargement of bone and joint of base of big toe

50
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Rickets

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Softening/weakening of bones due to lack of vitamin D

51
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Scurvy

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Abnormalities in bone development, epiphyseal disease, lifting of periosteum because of lack of vitamin D

52
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Scoliosis

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Curvature of the spine from side to side

53
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Lordosis

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Curvature of the spine from front to back

54
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Kyphosis

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Curvature of upper spine outward

55
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Where are flat bones located?

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Ribs, pelvis, sternum

56
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Where are irregular bones located

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Vertebrae and certain skull bones

57
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Where are sesamoid bones located?

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Kneecap and within tendons

58
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What are the six functions of the skeletal system?

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Protection, mineral storage and acid-base homeostasis, blood cell formation, fat storage, movement, support

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