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| How many bones are in the human body? |
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| The Axial Skeleton has how many bones in it? |
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| The Appendicular skeleton has how many bones in it? |
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| Consists of the bones of the skull, thorax, and vertebral column. |
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| Includes the bones of the limbs and the pectoral and pelvic girldles that attach the limbs to the axial skeleton. |
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| What are three functions of the skeletal system? |
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Support
Protection
Storage of minerals
Blood Cell production
Leverage |
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| What are two examples of flat bones? |
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| Cranial bones and sternum |
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| What are irregular bones that are formed between cranial bones? |
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| What are examples of irregular bones? |
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| Vertebrae, bones of pelvis, and facial bones. |
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| Small, flat and somewhat shaped like sesame seed. |
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| What are some examples of short bones? |
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| Bones of the wrists (carpals) and ankles (tarsals) |
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| Connects epiphysis to shaft |
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| Is an expanded area found at each end of the bone |
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| What is the medullary cavity? |
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| Is a space within the hollow shaft. In life it is filled with bone marrow. |
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| Highly vascular and involved in the production of blood cells. |
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| What is yellow bone marrow? |
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| Adipose tissue important in the storage of energy reserves. |
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| A narrow zone that connects the epiphysis to the shaft of the bone. |
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| These account for most of the cell population in the bone. Each one occupies a lacuna. These cannot divide and a lacuna cannot have more than one osteocyte. |
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| Incomplete cellular layer lining medullary cavity. |
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| What is appositional bone growth? |
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| Increases bone diameter of existing bones. |
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| Intramembranous Ossification? |
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| Begins as mesenchymal (stem) cells differentiate into osteoblasts within embryonic or fibrous connective tissue. |
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| Excessive cartilage formation at epiphyseal cartilage. Causes long, slendar limbs. |
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| Overproduction of growth hormone before puberty. |
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| What is FOP (Fibrodysplasia Ossificans Progressiva)? |
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| Gene mutation that causes bone disposition around skeletal muscles |
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| How much of the body's calcium do bones hold? |
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