study guide ivy tech APHY 101 final A Graded

step 4: When the epiphysial cartilage has ossified (hardened), bone growth stops. What is the epiphyseal plate? - ans ----as spongy bone is deposited in the diaphysis and in the epiphysis, a band of cartilage will form what are the parts of a long bone? - ans ----epiphysis and diaphysis What is the epiphysis? - ans ----end of a long bone that articulates (forms a joint) with another bone. What is the diaphysis? - ans ----shaft of a long bone What is the medullary cavity? - ans ----hollow chamber in diaphysis. marrow fills this cavity What is the periosteum? - ans ----a dense layer of vascular connective tissue enclosing a bone what is compact bone? - ans ----wall of the diaphysis mainly composed of tightly packed tissue what is spongy bone? - ans ----cancellous bone that largely composes the epiphysis Describe the process of ossification - ans ----step one 1: cordlike and connects muscles to bones; a broad sheet of dense connective tissue that connects muscles to muscles step 2: Long bones develop from rods of cartilage, some from membranes and some from tendons. step 3: Ossification occurs first in the cartilage rods, then in the epiphyses of long bones.