Skeletal System Flashcards

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What is the only other harder natural substance than bone in the body?

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Teeth enamel

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The second hardest natural substance In the body

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Bone

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What is bone composed of?

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Cells of collagen fibers embedded into the matrix

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The cells that produce bone?

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Osteoblasts

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The process of hardening the matrix that make up bone?

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Ossification

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The functions of bones

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Supporting the body, protecting the organs, movement of the body, storing minerals, formation of blood cells

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Two TYPES of bones

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Cancellous bone and compact bone

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What is the difference between cancellous bone and compact bone?

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Cancellous bone is spongy and light while compact bone is heavy and dense

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What is the advantage of cancellous bones?

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They keep your body lightweight but still maintain strength

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Where is compact bone located?

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In what’s of long bones and outside layers of bones

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What is compact bone composed of?

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Haversian systems (tightly compacted cylinders of bone)

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What does the Haversian canal contain?

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Blood vessels, lymph vessels and nerves

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The membrane that covers the outer surfaces of bones.

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Periosteum

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The membrane that lines the hallow interior of surface bones.

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Endosteum

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What do osteoclasts do?

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Eat away bone to remodel or remove bone (evil twin of osteoblasts)

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How do bones get blood?

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Passing through tiny channels in the bone matrix called Volkmanns canal

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How do large blood vessels, lymph vessels and nerves enter bones?

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Through nutrient foramina channels

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Two ways bones are formed.

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Cartilage bone formation and membrane bone formation

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Most bones develop by which formation style?

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Cartilage bone formation (grows into and replaces a cartilage model)

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Where is the primary growth center of cartilage bone formation?

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Shaft of the cartilage rod

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Where are secondary growth centers for cartilage bone formation?

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Ends of the bone

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Where does membrane bone formation take place?

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In certain skull bones

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Three things that are necessary for bone to fix itself?

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Alignment, immobilization and time

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Four basic shapes of bone

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Long, short, flat and irregular

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Where are most long bones found?
Limbs of the body
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What are short bones shaped like?
Cubes
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Examples of short bones found in the body?
Tarsel and carpel bones
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Examples of flat bones found in the body?
Skull Shoulder blades, pelvic bones
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How did irregular bones get their name?
They have more than one characteristics of short, long or flat or are irregular shaped
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Where is bone marrow found?
Fills the spaces within the bone
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What does red bone marrow do?
Forms blood cells
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What is yellow bone marrow?
Fat
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What is a hole in the bone called?
Foramen
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What is a fossa?
A sunken area on the surface of bone
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Two main groups of skeletal bones?
Bones of the head or trunk and bones of the limbs
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What group of the skeletal bones are called the axial skeleton?
Head and trunk bones
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Which group of skeletal bones are referred to as the appendicular skeleton?
Trunk bones
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Some animals have a third group of skeletal bones called...
Visceral skeleton
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The most complex part of the skeleton
Skull
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Jagged, immovable, fibrous joints that unite the skull are called...
Sutures
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Moveable joint (the jaw)
Synovial joint
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Groups of skull bones
Cranium bones, ear bones, face bones
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External bones of the cranium?
Occipital, inter parietal, parietal, temporal, frontal
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Internal bones of the cranium?
Sphenoid, ethmoid bones
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External bones of the face?
Incisive, nasal, maxillary, lacrimal bones, zygomatic, mandible
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Internal bones of the face?
Palatine, pterygoid, vomer bones
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Also called the breastbone
Sternum
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What is the appendicular skeleton?
The limbs of the body
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Oste/o
Refers to bone
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Crani/o
Cranium of the skull
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-Blast
Making of
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What is diaphysis?
Shaft of a long bone (femur)
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What is endosteum?
Inner membrane of a diaphysis bone
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What is periosteum?
Membrane around the outside of a diaphysis bone
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What is epiphysis?
The ends of a bone
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What is a mature osteoblast called after the cell gets surrounded by matrix material?
Osteocytes
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Where are periosteums NOT present?
In articular surfaces (joints)
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Large channels where large blood vessels, lymph vessels and nerves enter the bones
Nutrient foramina
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Channels vessels pass through to get to the bone matrix?
Volkmanns channels
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Nutrient canal that joins with Volkmanns channel to bring nutrients to osteocytes?
Haversian Canals
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What is emdochomdral?
Cartilage
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How does the emdochomdral formation of bones work?
(Like wire of a sculpture then the plaster of the sculpture) creation of cartilage that is replaced by bone
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Where are cancellous bones found?
At the ends of long bones
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Large, round, articular surfaces
Condyle
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Flat articular surface
Facet
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Round, "ball in socket" on ends of articular surfaces
Head
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"Hole" nerves and vessels pass through into bone
Foramen
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What is a protruberance?
Lumps and bumps of bones where muscles and tendons attach
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What is an axial bone?
Parts of the body that cannot be removed and still live (skull, spine, ribs, tail)
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What are appendicular bones?
Bones/limbs able to be removed and still live
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How many bones make up the brain?
37-38
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Upper jaw, mom-movable
Maxilla
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What does normocephalic mean?
Normal skull shape, proportional to natural wolf style
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What does brachycephalic mean?
Wide skull with shortened snout, pushing all natural wolf features into a small area
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What does dolidhochephalic mean?
Elongated snout that is long and thin. Head is narrow and long. (Greyhound and collie)
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What digit does a horse walk on?
Third (middle)
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What digit does a cow walk on?
3 and 4
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What does the frog of a horse hoof do?
Pushes on the ground to assist in blood flow up legs
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Examples of synovial joints?
Knee, shoulder
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Examples of fibrous joints
Skull joints, splint bones
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Which joint is the most common place for injury?
Stifle joint
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What are the three types of synovial joints?
Ball and socket, pivot and hinged
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What do crucible ligaments in the stifle joint do?
Holds your femur from moving forward
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What do the collateral ligaments in the stifle joint do?
Hold you femur from going sideways
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What is the patella of a stifle joint?
Knee cap
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What is the meniscus in the stifle joint?
Cushion between tibia and patella
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Example of a ball and socket joint
Hip and shoulder
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Examples of hinged joints
Elbow
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Examples of pivot joints
Skull with vertebrae
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Not a knee...
A stifle