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| Made up of several types of tissues so it's an organ. Functions: muscle attachment, blood cell production, and storage of minerals. |
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| Expanded ends of bones that form joints with adjacent bones. |
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| Tough layer of cascular connective tissue that covers the bone and is continuous with ligaments and tendons. |
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| Makes up the wall of the diaphysis. |
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| Fills the epiphyses to reduce the weight of the skeleton. |
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| Long, short, flat, irregular, and sesamoid. |
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| Found in the spongy bone it makes red and white blood cells and platelets. |
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| Moves calcium to bone when levels are too high in your body, with the use of cytoblasts. |
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| Made up of the skull, hyoid bone, vertebral column, and thorax. |
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| Made up of pectoral girdle, upper limbs, pelvic girdle, and lower limbs. |
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| Lower jawbone, only moveable facial bone. |
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| Joints, the functional junctions between bones. |
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| Most joints of the skeleton, more complex, end of bone in this joint is covered with hyaline cartilage. |
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| Lined with endosteum and filled with marrow. |
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| Lines the medullary cavity. |
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| 12, articulate with the ribs. |
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| 5, support the weight of the body. |
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| Triangular structure at the base of the vertebral column made up of five vertebrae fused into one bone. |
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| Lowermost portion of the vertebral column, made of four fused vertebrae. |
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| Seven pairs that join the sternum directly by their costal cartilages. |
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| Five pairs, first three are vertebrochondral ribs, the last two are floating ribs. |
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| Makes an incomplete ring that supports the upper limbs, made up of two scapulae and two clavicles. |
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| Framework for the arm, forearm, and hand. |
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| Two hip bones and the sacrum, supports the trunk of the body and lower limbs. Supports and protects the lower abdominal and pelvic organs. |
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| Made up of 3 bones, ilium, ischium, and pubis. |
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| Framework for the thigh, lower leg, and foot. |
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| Supports the body weight. |
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| Shock absorbing pads of fibrocartilage. |
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| Fluid filled sacs in the synovial joint. |
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| Consistency of egg whites and lubricates articulating surfaces within the joint. |
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