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| Hemopoiesis Also called Hematopoiesis |
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Blood Cell Formation in Bone Marrow
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Bone builders. Repair and remodeling of bone.Deposits bone matrix. Calcitonin stimulates Osteoblasts.
Osteoblasts strengthens bone and makes it heavier.
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Bone destroyers. Lightens and weakens bones. Less dense bones. Calcified cartilage matrix or calcified bone matrix removed.
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layers of bone matrix
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A hormone that moves Calcium into the bone.
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Little lakes that contain osteocytes.
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| Where two bones articulate. The cartilage is here to lubricate joint movement but had to give up the necessary strength to be smooth. |
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| thick bonds of cartilage bonded together and designed to be strong. Connects bone joints together! |
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| "a translucent bluish-white type of cartilage present in the joints, the respiratory tract, and the immature skeleton." Looks glossy and smooth. Has lacunae and chondrocytes just like compact bones and the structure is actually very similar because compact bone comes from cartilage. |
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| Not a part of the skeletal system and is found only in skin! Contains the protien elastin which gives it it's properties. It's string/spring-like. |
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| bacteria in your intestine that makes Vitamin D and normally causes no harm but some strands can cause food poisoning, especially elderly people and children. |
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| Brittle bones because of the loss of bone matrix and has many causes. |
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| Filled with Synovial fluid for circulation and lubriction. What does this mean? The Synovial Capsule is initiated by movement and is involved with circulation. The Synovial Capsule moves inside to outside to inside when people move their joints. While it moves, it picks up nutrients from blood and delivers it to the Synovial membrane and joint when it circulates back to the inside of the joint. |
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| Carry nutrient rich fluids to the lacunae. Weakens bone a little, carries some Oxygen. |
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| Latin meaning; Bone cell. when Osteoblasts are surrounded by bone matrix. |
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| How blood is carried to the bone without making the bones weaker. |
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| surface of medullary cavity lined with a thin connective tissue membrane. |
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| Caused by Vitamin D deficiency and prevents you from absorbing Calcium from your food into your blood? A disease of children. |
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| what are two things that stimulate Osteoblasts? |
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| "A layer of connective tissue that lines the cavities of joints, tendon sheaths, and bursae and makes synovial fluid" |
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| A "transparent...fluid...secreted by a membrane of an articulation, bursa, or tendon sheath". Also called "joint fluid" or "synovia". |
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| Literally means glue producing. A tough, rope -like protien. Collagen is the bodies solution for places/areas of the body that need flexible strength, keeping the bones as strong as possible but as light as possible. A flexible protien. |
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| Calcium phosphate crystals that makes up the mineral in bone. |
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| "a solid inorganic substance of natural occurrence" |
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| the material that makes bones strong. Composed of hydroxyapatite, Calcium and Collagen, a flexible protien. |
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| Where are capillaries bad? |
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| "a dense layer of vascular connective tissue enveloping the bones except at the surfaces of the joints." |
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| growth plate at the end of bones. Will fall of |
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| "reduced bone mass of lesser severity than osteoporosis." |
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| Contains the blood vessel |
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| When bone growth stops, the cartilage of the epiphyseal plate is replaced by bone and will not fall off as a skeleton decomposes. |
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| my cutsie word for skeleton. Try saying it in a feminine and slightly British accent. You'll see why it's such a cute word to use! Try it!:) Especially if you're a boy because that would be even more funny! |
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