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Endosteum - ✔✔-lines the medullary cavity
-seperates bone marrow from bone matrix
Periosteum - ✔✔-dense layer of vascular connective tissue
-enveloping the bones except at the surfaces of the joints
medullary cavity - ✔✔cavity within the shaft of the long bones filled with bone marrow
perforating fibers - ✔✔secure periosteum to underlying bone
articular cartilage - ✔✔covers the surfaces of bones where they come together to form
joints
metaphysis (epiphyseal plate) - ✔✔The area at which bone growth occurs
Epiphysis - ✔✔the end part of a long bone, initially growing separately from the shaft.
Diaphysis - ✔✔shaft of a long bone
endochondral ossification - ✔✔-the most common
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,-replacement of hyaline cartilage with bone
intramembranous ossification - ✔✔-flat bones
-from collagen
Calcitonin - ✔✔-produced by thyroid gland
-lowers levels of calcium iron in blood
Pott's fracture - ✔✔-usually inversion
-accident when wearing platform shoes
-fracture fibula
-injury to tibial articulation
Bone brittleness - ✔✔-decreased rate of protein synthesis
-decreased collagen fibers
-susceptible to fracture
Synthesis of hydroxyapatite - ✔✔Made from treatment of waste streams containing
calcium
Calcitriol - ✔✔-active form of vitamin D
-produced by kidneys
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, -helps build bone(via calcium absorption from food)
squamous suture - ✔✔Between parietal and temporal bones
sagittal suture - ✔✔between the two parietal bones
frontal suture - ✔✔located between the two frontal bones
coronal suture - ✔✔between frontal and parietal bones
lambdoid suture - ✔✔between parietal bones and occipital bone
Orbits of the skull - ✔✔-7 bones
-frontal
-zygomatic
-maxilla
-sphenoid
-ethmoid
-lacrimal
-palatine
paired bones of the skull - ✔✔-6 bones
-maxilla
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