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| 126 bones. Bones of skull, thorax, and vertebral column |
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| 80 bones. Bones of the limbs and girdles that attach them to the axial skeleton |
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| Functions of the skeletal system |
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| support, storage of minerals, blood cell production, protection, leverage |
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| thin roughly parallel surface. Ex: sternum |
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| irregular bones formed between cranial bones. number, size and shape vary |
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| relatively long and slender |
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| complex shapes. Ex: Facial bone |
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| small flat. Develop in tendons of knee hands and feet |
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| Small and boxy, ex: bones of wrist |
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| Chamber within bone, usually filled w air |
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| Resists forces from various directions and directs body weight to diaphysis and joints |
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| covers portions of epiphysis that form articulations |
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| Contains medullary cavity (marrow cavity) filled with marrow |
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| commonly on each bone (vascular feature) |
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| Carries blood to/from metaphysis |
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| mature bone cells that cannot divide |
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| produce new bony matrix (osteogenesis or ossification) |
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| mesenchymal (stem) cells that produce cells that differentiate into osteoblast |
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| Remove and remodel bone matrix |
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| increases bone diameter of existing bones, does not form original bones |
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| incomplete cellular layer lining medullary cavity |
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