Skeletal System Flashcards
(90 cards)
What is the only other harder natural substance than bone in the body?
Teeth enamel
The second hardest natural substance In the body
Bone
What is bone composed of?
Cells of collagen fibers embedded into the matrix
The cells that produce bone?
Osteoblasts
The process of hardening the matrix that make up bone?
Ossification
The functions of bones
Supporting the body, protecting the organs, movement of the body, storing minerals, formation of blood cells
Two TYPES of bones
Cancellous bone and compact bone
What is the difference between cancellous bone and compact bone?
Cancellous bone is spongy and light while compact bone is heavy and dense
What is the advantage of cancellous bones?
They keep your body lightweight but still maintain strength
Where is compact bone located?
In what’s of long bones and outside layers of bones
What is compact bone composed of?
Haversian systems (tightly compacted cylinders of bone)
What does the Haversian canal contain?
Blood vessels, lymph vessels and nerves
The membrane that covers the outer surfaces of bones.
Periosteum
The membrane that lines the hallow interior of surface bones.
Endosteum
What do osteoclasts do?
Eat away bone to remodel or remove bone (evil twin of osteoblasts)
How do bones get blood?
Passing through tiny channels in the bone matrix called Volkmanns canal
How do large blood vessels, lymph vessels and nerves enter bones?
Through nutrient foramina channels
Two ways bones are formed.
Cartilage bone formation and membrane bone formation
Most bones develop by which formation style?
Cartilage bone formation (grows into and replaces a cartilage model)
Where is the primary growth center of cartilage bone formation?
Shaft of the cartilage rod
Where are secondary growth centers for cartilage bone formation?
Ends of the bone
Where does membrane bone formation take place?
In certain skull bones
Three things that are necessary for bone to fix itself?
Alignment, immobilization and time
Four basic shapes of bone
Long, short, flat and irregular