Bones Flashcards
(29 cards)
Major functions of the skeletal system
- Support
- Protection
- Movement
- Storage
- Blood cell formation
Articular Cartilage (Hyaline)
Covers external surface of the bone
Periosteum
Fibrous connective tissue membrane that protects the diaphysis.
Endosteum
Thin layer of connective tissue in the medullary cavity of the long bone.
Four classifications of bone
- Long bone
- Short bone
- Flat bone
- Irregular bone
Irregular bone
Doesn’t fit one of the of three categories.
• Vertebrae or hip bones
Short bone
Cube-shaped and contains mostly spongy bone.
• Wrists and ankles
Sesamoid bone
Forms with tendons; special type of short bone.
Flat bone
Thin, flattened, and usually curved bone.
• Two thing layers of compact bone that sandwich a layover of spongy bone.
• Ribs, sternum
Compact bone
Dense, smooth looking homogeneous bone.
Spongy
Composed of small, needle-like pieces of bone with lots of open spaces.
Epiphysis
- Ends of the long bone
* Consists of a thin layer of compact bone enclosing an area filled with spongy bone.
Diaphysis
- Shaft of long bone
- Compact bone
- Covered and protected by fibrous connective tissue membrane.
Epiphyseal plate
Thin plate if hyaline cartilage seen on young, growing bones that becomes bone as it matures.
• Grows lengthwise for long bone
• Leaves epipthyseal lines behind
Long bone
Typically longer than they are wide.
• Compact
• Patella, femur
Canaliculus
Tiny canals that radiate outward from the central canal to all lacunae.
Central canal (Harversian canal)
Runs length wise through the boney matrix and carries blood vessels & nerves to all areas if the bone.
Perforating (Volkmann’s) canal
Communication pathway from outside the bone to the interior (and central canal) that runs into compact bone at a right angle to the shaft.
Osteocytes
Mature blood cells found within the matrix in tiny cavities (lacunae).
Lacuna
Tiny cavities arranges in concentric circles (lamellas).
Matrix
Calcium salts
Compound fracture
He’s
Simple fracture
Hsb
Compressed fracture
Bone is crushed.
• Common is porous bones.