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Example of a diathroses/synovial joint? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔hip joint, elbow,
shoulder
What does endochondral starts off as? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔cartilage
The endochondral ossification center starts where? - 🧠 ANSWER
✔✔middle diaphysis and goes toward the epiphysis
When does the intermembranous ossification center close? - 🧠 ANSWER
✔✔before birth
,When does the secondary ossification center close (for girls)? - 🧠 ANSWER
✔✔age 15
When does the secondary ossification center close (for boys)? - 🧠
ANSWER ✔✔age 18-21
the cells that cause you to continue to grow if they keep going through
mitosis - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔chondrocytes
What are the two places that cartilage is left behind? - 🧠 ANSWER
✔✔articular cartilage
where the growth plate was
Where does intermembraneous ossification start? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔in the
membrane
What is a membrane? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔epithelium + connective tissue
(very thin sheets)
Most bones are made during which ossification process? - 🧠 ANSWER
✔✔endochondral ossification
Intermembraneous ossification makes mostly ____ bones - 🧠 ANSWER
✔✔skull
, How many ossification centers does intermembraneous ossification have? -
🧠 ANSWER ✔✔one
How does intermembraneous ossification create bones? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔it
is in the center of the skull and starts to radiate out then continues to
radiate until it creates a suture with a neighboring bone
Where does red blood cell production happen in babies and children? - 🧠
ANSWER ✔✔in all their bones because all their bones have red marrow
Red marrow makes ___ blood cells. - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔red
Why don't adults make red blood cells in all their bones? - 🧠 ANSWER
✔✔Adults' long bones turn from red marrow to yellow marrow so they only
make red blood cells in some places
What are the functions of the skeletal system? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔support,
protection, movement, storage, hematopoiesis
What attaches muscles to bone? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔tendons
The skeletal system provides a place for muscles to ____ - 🧠 ANSWER
✔✔attach
The skull protects the ____ - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔brain
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