Skeletal System - 1a Flashcards
- gives the vertebrate body shape
- provides support and movement via attachments for soft tissue and muscle
- protects vital organs
- major site for red marrow for production of blood cells
- plays a role in the metabolism of minerals (calcium and phosphorus)
- helps maintains homeostasis
mineralized tissues
Principal types of rigid skeleton
- exoskeleton
- endoskeleton
- formed from or within the integument
- bony skeleton derived from the dermis
- keratinized skeleton from the epidermis
exoskeleton
exoskeleton
- bony skeleton from dermis
- keratinized skeleton from epidermis
- forms deep within the body from mesoderm and other sources
- bony skeleton
- fibrous connective tissue
- cartilage
endoskeleton
endoskeleton
- bony skeleton
- fibrous connective tissue
- cartilage
Different types of skeleton based on the composition
- cranial skeleton or skull
- postcranial skeleton
cranial skeleton or skull
- splanchnocranium
- chondrocranium
- dermatocranium
postcranial skeleton
- axial skeleton
- appendicular skeleton
axial skeleton
- vertebral column
- notochord
appendicular skeleton
- limbs
- girdles
Composition of skeleton
- mineralized connective tissue
- ligaments
- tendons
- bursae
mineralized connective tissue
- bone
- dentin
- cartilage
- enamel
forms bone
osteoblast
forms dentin
odontoblast
forms cartilage
chondroblast
forms enamel
ameloblast
fibrous connective tissue that attaches bone to bone
ligament
fibrous connective tissues that attach muscles to bones and help enable movement
Tendons
small fluid-filled sacs that reduce friction between moving parts in your body’s joints
Bursae
- semirigid supportive axial rod of protochordates and all vertebrate larvae and embryos
- composed of large vacuolated cells surrounded by elastic and fibrous sheaths
- stiffening device
notochord
except in jawless vertebrates, what happens to notochord
surrounded or replaced by back bone during embryonic development
fate of notochord
- nucleous pulposus
- constricted in centrum
- inorganic components of bone comprise 60% of the dry weight (largely calcium hydroxy-appetite crystals) and provide the compressive strength of bone
- organic component is primarily collagen, which gives bone great tensile strength
bone