What is an diaphysis?
The middle shaft area
What is a metaphysis?
It is an area in the adult bone where the epiphyses and the diaphysis join.
A tough, connective tissue membrane.
Periosteum
The hollow center of the bony diaphysis.
Medullary cavity
The nutrient artery is a large artery that enters compact bone near the _______ of the diaphysis.
middle
What is found between the cavities of spongy bone and produces blood cells.
Red marrow.
What bone doesn’t fit into any type of category.
Irregular bone
What is the nutrient foramen?
The foramen through which the nutrient artery enters.
What are the five classifications of bones according to their shapes?
Long, short, flat, irregular, and sesamoid
True or False: bone growth stops when the epiphyseal plate cartilage becomes ossified and forms a bony structure called the epiphyseal line.
True
What bone is relatively flat but it may be curved, and it contains a thin spongy bone interior covered by a thin veneer of compact bone.
Flat bones
What bone is longer than they are wide and has a thick compact bone exterior.
Long bone
The cells that degrade bone to initiate normal bone remodeling and mediate bone loss in pathologic conditions by increasing their resorptive activity
Osteoclasts.
What bone develops in the tendons in order for protection against wear and tear and is small.
Sesamoid bones
What bone contains a thick exterior of spongy bone covered by a thin veneer of a compact bone and is almost equal in length and wide.
Short bones
What is the endosteum?
A connective tissue membrane.
What is an osteoblast?
The cells that form new bone.
In a growing bone, the metaphyses contain a layer of hyaline cartilage called
Epiphyseal plate
I am a fatty substance found within the medullary cavity.
Yellow marrow.
True or False: Bones have the same shapes and distinct gross anatomical features.
False: Bones have different shapes and distinct gross anatomical features.
I am composed of the hyaline cartilage. I cover both epiphyses and the rest of my bone exterior is covered with the periosteum.
I am articular cartilage.
What is an epiphysis?
The enlarged proximal and distal ends of longs bones.