Vocab #6

Question 1

The skull, vertebral columns, ribs and sternum

Answer 1

Axial skeleton

Question 2

Bones of the limbs and and limb girdles that that are attached to the axial skeleton

Answer 2

Appendicular Skelton

Question 3

Dense bone composed of osteons that make up the outer layer of flat, short and irregular bones; major component of long bones

Answer 3

Compact bone

Question 4

Internal layer of bone in flat, short and irregular bones, and in the epiphyses of long bones

Answer 4

Spongy bone

Question 5

A bone that is longer than it is wide

Answer 5

Long bone

Question 6

Thin, flattened, and usually curved

Answer 6

Flat bone

Question 7

Generally cube shaped and contain mostly spongy bone with an outer layer of compact bone

Answer 7

Short bone

Question 8

Bones that don’t fit other categories

Answer 8

Irregular bones

Question 9

Elongated shaft of a long bone

Answer 9

Diaphysis

Question 10

Double layered connective tissue membrane that covered and nourishes the bone

Answer 10

Periosteum

Question 11

Secure the periosteum to the underlying bone

Answer 11

Sharpeys fiber

Question 12

The end of a long bone

Answer 12

Epiphyses

Question 13

Hyaline cartilage covering the epiphyses or a bone or at a joint

Answer 13

Articular cartilage

Question 14

Calcified line in the epiphysis of a long bone that contained hyaline cartilage during the period of long bone growth, which ends when calcification is complete

Answer 14

Epiphyseal line

Question 15

Plate of hyaline cartilage in the epiphysis of a long bone that that allows for growth in length

Answer 15

Epiphyseal plate

Question 16

Central cavity in the diaphysis of a long bone containing marrow

Answer 16

Medullary cavity

Question 17

Bone marrow that is the site of blood cell production

Answer 17

Red marrow

Question 18

Bone marrow that stores adipose (fat) tissue

Answer 18

Yellow marrow

Question 19

Surface features of of bones where muscles, tendons, and ligaments attach, and where blood vessels and nerves pass

Answer 19

Bone markings

Question 20

A mature bone cell

Answer 20

Osteocytes

Question 21

A little depression or space; in bone or cartilage, lacunae are occupied by cells

Answer 21

Lacunae

Question 22

Concentric rings of bone matrix with lacuna between them

Answer 22

Lamellae

Question 23

The canal that is around lamellae

Answer 23

Haversian canals

Question 24

Tiny canals, that radiate outward from the central canals to all lacunae

Answer 24

Canaliculi

Question 25

Run in compact bone at right angles to the shaft (diaphysis and central canals)

Answer 25

Volkmann’s canal

Question 26

Process of bone formation

Answer 26

Ossification

Question 27

Bone-forming cells

Answer 27

Osteoblasts

Question 28

Large cells that resort or break down bone matrix

Answer 28

Osteoclasts

Question 29

Disease in which bone of children fail to calcify properly, leading to bowing of the leg bones

Answer 29

Rickets

Question 30

Bone breaks cleanly but does not penetrate the skin

Answer 30

Fracture