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Chapter 6: Osseous Tissue and Bone Structure
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Anatomy
Graduate
09/24/2013

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How many bones do you have total in your body?
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206
Term
Blood Cell Production takes place where?
Definition

Bone

Mostly in Long Bones

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Flat Bones
Definition
Thin and have roughly parallel surfaces
Term
Where will you find sutural bones?
Definition
Head
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Fissure
Definition
Enlongated cleft or gap
Term
A process is what?
Definition
Projection or Bump
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What is a Sulcus and where is it located?
Definition
Deep and narrow grove in the humerus
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Articular Cartilage
Definition
Is avascular and receives from synovial fluid
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What does the metaphysis do?
Definition
Connects epiphysis to shaft
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The medullary cavity is filled with what marrow?
Definition
Red & Yellow Bone Marrow
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What do osteocytes do?
Definition
Maintain protein and mineral content of adjacent matrix
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When osteoblast produce new bone matrix the process is called what?
Definition
Osteogenesis
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What major type of bone cell is needed to repair fractures?
Definition
Osteoprogenitor Cells
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What is the job of osteoclasts?
Definition
Remove and remodel bone matrix
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What accounts for 2/3 bone weight in the body?
Definition
Calcium Phosphate
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What is the compact bones functional unit?
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Osteon
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Interstitial lamellae does what between osteons?
Definition
Fills space
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Spongy bone is located where?
Definition
In places that bones are not heavily stressted or in many directions.
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During appositional bone growth what happens?
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There is an increase bone diameter of existing bones
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The periostem has two layers what are they?
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Fibrous Outter Layer

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Cellular Outter Layer

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In endochondral ossification, in the shaft what enlarges and matrix ossifies?
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Chondrocytes
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What is it called when bone growns out in small struts?
Definition
Spicules
Term
Achondroplasia
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When epiphyseal cartilage grows unusually slowly
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Gigantism is what?
Definition
Over production of growth hormone before puberty
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Gene mutation that causes bone deposition around skeletal muscle is called?
Definition
Fibrodysplasia Ossificans Progressiva (FOP)
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