Complete Solutions
What are the functions of the bones? Right Ans - -Shape, Support,
Protection, Movement, Electrolyte balance, Blood Production, Acid Base
Balance
What are the classification of bones by shape? Right Ans - -Long bones,
short bones, Flat bones, Irregular bones
What are the parts of a long bone? Right Ans - -Epiphysis, Diaphysis,
Articular Cartilage, Medullary Cavity, Endosteum, Periosteum
What are Osetoblasts? Right Ans - -Bone cell, helps form bone
What are osteoclasts? Right Ans - -Bone cell, dissolves unwanted or
unhealthy bone
What are osteocytes? Right Ans - -Bone cell, mature osteoblasts that both
dissolve bone and deposit new bone
Where do you find compact bone? Right Ans - -Shafts of long bone, outer
surfaces of bone
Where do you find cancellous (spongy) bone? Right Ans - -Ends of long
bone, middle of most other bones
What is an osteon? Right Ans - Basic structural unit of bone composed of
the lamellae and an haversion canal
What are the lamellae? Right Ans - Compact bone in layers arranged in
rings around a haversian canal
What structures pass through the haversian canals? Right Ans - -Blood
vessels
-Nerves