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Mineral reservoir (calcium/Phosphate)
Blood cell formation
Platelets, leukocytes, erythrocytes (200 billion a day) |
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Surface bigger than the other.
Bones of skull, scapula, sternum |
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| Most bones in your appendicular skeleton |
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Patella
Encased in connective tissue |
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| End of Long Bones are referred to as? |
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| The middle of a long bone is called? |
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| Appearance is spongy, lighter and strong. |
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| Energy reserve, lipid based substance primarily a fat storage |
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| Allows for healing and health of bone. Allows blood vessels to enter bone and allows bone to have a specific enviroment |
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| Run vertically in bone and allow access for blood supply |
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| Horizontally running blood vessels |
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| In compact bone forms columns within the bone that form passageway and dissipate force |
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Dissipates force
Subunit of structure encloses within it osteocytes, living part of the bone. It is made of calcium phosphate |
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| Composition of Bone (Matrix) |
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| Collagen, clycosaminoglycans, calcium phosphate, hydroxyapatite, |
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| A cell that forms new bone |
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