Chapter 6 Flashcards
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Bone is hard and rigid; cartilage is flexible yet strong. Cartilage in nose, external ear, thoracic cage and trachea.
Support
connect bone to bone.
Ligaments
Skull around brain; ribs, sternum, vertebrae protect organs of thoracic cavity.
Protection
Produced by muscles attached to bones via tendons.
Movement
Calcium and phosphate stored and released as needed. Adipose tissue stored in marrow cavities
Storage
Bone marrow that gives rise to blood cells and platelets
Blood cell production
form matrix.
Chondroblasts
surrounded by matrix; are within lacunae.
Chondrocytes
Collagen fibers for strength, proteoglycans for resiliency.
Matrix
Double-layered C.T. sheath. Covers cartilage except at articulations.
Perichondrium
More delicate, has fewer fibers, contains chondroblasts.
Inner Perichondrium
Blood vessels and nerves penetrate. No blood vessels in cartilage itself
Outer Perichondrium
Covers bones at joints; has no perichondrium Growth.
Articular cartilage
New chondrocytes and new matrix at the periphery.
Appositional
Chondrocytes within the tissue divide and add more matrix between the cells.
Interstitial
If mineral removed,
bone is too bendable
If collagen removed,
bone is too brittle.
Bone-building cells, produce collagen and proteoglycans
OSTEOBLASTS
produced by E.R. and golgi apparatus. Released by exocytosis.
Collagen
stored in vesicles, then released by exocytosis
Precursors of hydroxyapatite
Formation of bone by osteoblasts.
communicate through gap junctions.
Cells surround themselves by matrix.
OSSIFICATION
Mature bone cells.
Stellate.
Surrounded by matrix but can make small amounts of matrix to maintain it
OSTEOCYTES
spaces occupied by osteocyte cell body.
Lacunae
canals occupied by osteocyte cell extensions.
• Nutrients and gases can pass through:
• the small amount of fluid surrounding the cells in the canaliculi and lacunae
Canaliculi