Topic 1 Bone Marking Flashcards
What is osteoporosis
Lack of calcium in the blood
What are some prevention a of osteoporosis?
Weight training or resistance training as a growing person
Articular
Something involving a joint
Fissure
Narrow, slit like opening
Foramen
Round or oval opening through a bone
Meatus
Canal-like passageway
Fossa
Shallow, basin like depression in the bone, often serving as an Articular surface
Tuberosity
Large rounded projection, may be roughened
Trochanter
Very large, blunt irregularly shaped process
Tubercle
Small rounded outgrowth
Epicondyle
Raised area on or above a condyle (a condyle is at the end of a bone which forms part of the joint
Define process anatomically
Any bone prominence
Condyle
A rounded Articular projection
What can skin pigmentation do the growth? (Disease also)
If one has dark skin and they don’t spend much time outside then their bones don’t develop effectively which results in Rickets
4 bone remodelling cells
Osteogenic- stem cells
Osteocytes- bone cells
Osteoblasts- building cells
Osteoclasts- Crashing cells