3 questions with verified answers
Acromegaly Ans✓✓✓ Increased levels of human growth hormone
results in enlarged hands, feet, jaw, organs.
Actin Ans✓✓✓ Protein backbone of thin filament
aging of skeleton Ans✓✓✓ height reduction, bone removal exceeds
bone deposition, decrease collagen, increase interosteonic gaps,Joint
degeneration.
Aging of the skeleton (5) Ans✓✓✓ Osteoclasts>osteoblasts
Height reduction
Decrease collagen/calcium ratio
Increased interosteonic gaps
Joint Degeneration
Amphiarthrotic Ans✓✓✓ slightly movable
Amphiarthrotic joint Ans✓✓✓ Some movement joints Example: female
coccyx
,Aponeuroses Ans✓✓✓ Broad sheet of CT that attach adjoining muscles
or broad areas of bone.
Appositional Ans✓✓✓ Increases diameter of long bones
arthritis Ans✓✓✓ inflammation of a joint
Arthritis Ans✓✓✓ Inflammation of a joint
articular cartilage Ans✓✓✓ decrease friction
Articular Cartilage Ans✓✓✓ Function: decrease friction
Atrophy Ans✓✓✓ Lack of use. Decrease size of muscle
Bacterial arthritis Ans✓✓✓ invasion of the synovial membrane by
microorganisms, usually with extension into the joint space to produce
a closed space infection
Bacterial Arthritis Ans✓✓✓ Third form of arthritis. Not osteo or
rheumatoid
, blood cell formation Ans✓✓✓ formed in red marrow. POSTPARTUM in
spongy tissue of flat bones and vertebrae.
Bone Classification Ans✓✓✓ long, short, flat, irregular, sesamoid,
sutural
Bulging(slipped) disk Ans✓✓✓ With age, annulus cracks, nucleus loses
firmness
Bursae Ans✓✓✓ Synovial membrane-lined chambers/sacs with
synovial fluid. Provides cushioning over bony projections for movement
of tendons. Example: olecranon process
Cardiac Ans✓✓✓ Circulation
Rapid contraction and no fatigue
cardiac muscle Ans✓✓✓ Involuntary muscle tissue found only in the
heart.
Cartilage Ans✓✓✓ A connective tissue that is more flexible than bone
and that protects the ends of bones and keeps them from rubbing
together.
cartilaginous joints Ans✓✓✓ bound by hyaline cartilage