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| hard, dense bone tissue, usually found around the outer portion of bones |
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| knuckle-like process at the end of a bone near the joint |
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| ethmoid, frontal, occipital, parietal, sphenoid, and temporal |
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| Name the six cranial bones |
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| shaft or mid-portion of a long bone |
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| flat, round, plate-like structure |
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| fibrocartilaginous substance between two vertebrae |
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| cartilaginous are at the ends of long bones where lengthwise growth takes place in the immature skeleton |
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| each end of a long bone--the area beyond the epiphyseal plate |
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| lacrimal, mandibular, maxillary, nasal, vomer, and zygomatic |
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| Name the six facial bones |
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| narrow, slit-like opening in or between bones |
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| soft spot (area of incomplete bone formation) between the skull bones of an infant |
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| opening or passage in bones where blood vessel and nerves enter and leave |
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| opening of the occipital bone through which the spinal cord passes |
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| minute spaces filled with blood vessels, found in compact bone |
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| round process on both sides of the ankle joint |
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| The lateral malleolus is part of the ________ and the medial malleolus is part of the _________ |
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| upper portion of the sternum, articulates with the medial aspect of the clavicle |
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| round projection on the temporal bone behind the ear |
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| central, hollowed-out area in the shaft of a long bone |
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| flared portion of long bone, between the diaphysis and the epiphyseal plate |
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| In the term metaphysis, the prefix meta- means ________ |
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| large process on the proximal end of the ulna--the point of the flexed elbow |
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| process of bone formation |
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| bone cell that helps form bony tissue |
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| bone cell that absorbs and removes unwanted bony tissue |
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| membrane surrounding bones, rich in blood vessels and nerve tissue |
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