and Answers
estrogen; osteoclast activity - ✅✅Osteoporosis is most common in elderly
women because of the lack of ___ which would otherwise inhibit ___
periosteum; endosteum - ✅✅A long bone is covered externally with a sheath
called the ___, whereas the marrow cavity is lined with the ___
cell proliferation - ✅✅Chondrocytes multiply in the zone of ___ of the
metaphysis.
marrow cavity - ✅✅The center cavity of the diaphysis of a long bone is called
the ___
osteoporosis - ✅✅The most common bone disease is ___
osteoclasts; osteocytes - ✅✅The plasma membrane of ___ have a ruffled
border with many deep infoldings. whereas ___ have long, thin, fingerlike
cytoplasmic processes.
abnormal calcification of a tissue - ✅✅Arteriosclerosis is one example of
ectopic ossification, which means ___
removal of the thyroid gland - ✅✅Which of the following does NOT put women
at risk for hypocalcemia?
, epiphyseal line - ✅✅The thin layer of compact bone that separates an adult's
epiphysis from the diaphysis is called the ___
rickets; osteomalacia - ✅✅The result of blood calcium and phosphate levels
being too low for normal deposition is a softness of the bones called ___ in
children and ___ in adults.
osteoblasts and osteocytes - ✅✅When ___ become enclosed in lacunae, they
become cells called ___
articular cartilage and epiphyseal plate - ✅✅A growing long bone in a child has
only two areas of cartilage at the epiphysis. These two areas are the ___
hyoid bone - ✅✅The ___ is a U-shaped bone that sits above the larynx yet does
not articulate with any other bone.
squamous - ✅✅The ___ suture separates the temporal bone from the parietal
bone.
greater than 100 degrees - ✅✅One difference between the male and female
pelvis is that the subpubic angle of a female is generally ___
parietal bones - ✅✅Which of the following are NOT considered facial bones?
maxilla - ✅✅Which of the following bones forms the bulk of the hard palate?