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Functions of the skeletal system - ✔✔support, protection, movement,
storage, blood cell production
bone shapes are: - ✔✔long, short, flat, irregular, sesamoid
Long bones - ✔✔longer than they are wide
Short bones - ✔✔cube shaped bones of the wrist and ankle
Sesamoid bones - ✔✔round bones found near joints (e.g., the patella)
Flat Bones - ✔✔These bones are thin, flat, and curved. They form the ribs,
breastbone, and skull.
Irregular bones - ✔✔bones of the vertebrae and face
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, Bone markings - ✔✔bones display projections, depressions, and openings
that serve as sites of muscle, ligament, and tendon attachment, as joint
surfaces, or as conduits for blood vessels
Bone projections - ✔✔grow out from the bone and serve as sites of muscle
attachment or help form joints, ex: head, process, condyle
Bone depressions - ✔✔concave, indented areas or openings in bones
Structure of long bone - ✔✔diaphysis, epiphysis, metaphysis
Structure of flat bone - ✔✔resembles a sandwich of spongy bone between
two layers of compact bone
cell types of osseous tissue - ✔✔osteogenic cells, osteoblasts, osteocytes,
osteoclasts
osteogenic cells - ✔✔stem cells that differentiate into osteoblasts
osteoblasts - ✔✔Bone building cells
osteocytes - ✔✔mature bone cells
osteoclasts - ✔✔break down bone
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Functions of the skeletal system - ✔✔support, protection, movement,
storage, blood cell production
bone shapes are: - ✔✔long, short, flat, irregular, sesamoid
Long bones - ✔✔longer than they are wide
Short bones - ✔✔cube shaped bones of the wrist and ankle
Sesamoid bones - ✔✔round bones found near joints (e.g., the patella)
Flat Bones - ✔✔These bones are thin, flat, and curved. They form the ribs,
breastbone, and skull.
Irregular bones - ✔✔bones of the vertebrae and face
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, Bone markings - ✔✔bones display projections, depressions, and openings
that serve as sites of muscle, ligament, and tendon attachment, as joint
surfaces, or as conduits for blood vessels
Bone projections - ✔✔grow out from the bone and serve as sites of muscle
attachment or help form joints, ex: head, process, condyle
Bone depressions - ✔✔concave, indented areas or openings in bones
Structure of long bone - ✔✔diaphysis, epiphysis, metaphysis
Structure of flat bone - ✔✔resembles a sandwich of spongy bone between
two layers of compact bone
cell types of osseous tissue - ✔✔osteogenic cells, osteoblasts, osteocytes,
osteoclasts
osteogenic cells - ✔✔stem cells that differentiate into osteoblasts
osteoblasts - ✔✔Bone building cells
osteocytes - ✔✔mature bone cells
osteoclasts - ✔✔break down bone
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