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