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hyaline cartilage - ✔✔cartilage associated with bone development
Tendons - ✔✔Connect muscle to bone
Ligaments - ✔✔Connect bone to bone
bone functions - ✔✔support, protect organs, movement, homeostasis, hemopoisis,
energy, fat storage
Diaphysis - ✔✔shaft of a long bone / center of bone
Epiphysis - ✔✔Ends of a long bone
metaphysis - ✔✔where diaphysis and epiphysis meet
epiphyseal plate - ✔✔growth plate
Periosteum - ✔✔CT sheath around bone
medullary cavity - ✔✔contains yellow marrow "adipose"
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, Endosteum - ✔✔membrane lining of marrow cavity
osteogenic cells - ✔✔stem cells
Osteoblasts - ✔✔bone forming cells
Osteocytes - ✔✔mature bone cells / maintain bone
osteoclasts - ✔✔large cells that resorb or break down bone matrix
Osteons - ✔✔functional unit of compact bone
Central (Haversian) Canal - ✔✔contains blood vessels and nerves
Volkman's canal - ✔✔transmit blood vessels into the bone
canaluculi - ✔✔passageways through bone matrix for blood vessels and nutrients
Lacunae - ✔✔small cavities in bone that contain osteocytes
compact bone layers - ✔✔concentric lamella, interstitial lamella, circumferential lamella
Ossification - ✔✔process of bone formation
intramembranous ossification - ✔✔starts within embryonic CT / only skull bones
endochondral ossification - ✔✔starts with hyaline cartilage model / all bones except
skull
calcification - ✔✔occurs in bone formation / hardening of bone
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hyaline cartilage - ✔✔cartilage associated with bone development
Tendons - ✔✔Connect muscle to bone
Ligaments - ✔✔Connect bone to bone
bone functions - ✔✔support, protect organs, movement, homeostasis, hemopoisis,
energy, fat storage
Diaphysis - ✔✔shaft of a long bone / center of bone
Epiphysis - ✔✔Ends of a long bone
metaphysis - ✔✔where diaphysis and epiphysis meet
epiphyseal plate - ✔✔growth plate
Periosteum - ✔✔CT sheath around bone
medullary cavity - ✔✔contains yellow marrow "adipose"
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, Endosteum - ✔✔membrane lining of marrow cavity
osteogenic cells - ✔✔stem cells
Osteoblasts - ✔✔bone forming cells
Osteocytes - ✔✔mature bone cells / maintain bone
osteoclasts - ✔✔large cells that resorb or break down bone matrix
Osteons - ✔✔functional unit of compact bone
Central (Haversian) Canal - ✔✔contains blood vessels and nerves
Volkman's canal - ✔✔transmit blood vessels into the bone
canaluculi - ✔✔passageways through bone matrix for blood vessels and nutrients
Lacunae - ✔✔small cavities in bone that contain osteocytes
compact bone layers - ✔✔concentric lamella, interstitial lamella, circumferential lamella
Ossification - ✔✔process of bone formation
intramembranous ossification - ✔✔starts within embryonic CT / only skull bones
endochondral ossification - ✔✔starts with hyaline cartilage model / all bones except
skull
calcification - ✔✔occurs in bone formation / hardening of bone
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