MUSCULOSKELETAL CHIMA NCE REVIEW EXAM QUESTIONS AND CORRECT
ANSWERS
What purposes do the bones serve? ANSWER: Blood production, electrolyte
balance, movement, support, protection, shape, and acid-base balance
Which shapes are used to categorize bones? Long bones, short bones, flat
bones, and irregular bones are the answers.
What components make up a long bone? ANSWER -Articular Cartilage,
Medullary Cavity, Endosteum, Periosteum, Epiphysis, and Diaphysis
Osetoblasts: What Are They? ANSWER: Bone cells aid in the formation of
bone.
Describe osteoclasts. The answer is that bone cells destroy diseased or
undesired bone.
Osteocytes: what are they? The mature osteoblasts that break down bone and
form new bone are bone cells.
Where can one locate compact bone? ANSWER - Long bone shafts, bone outer
surfaces
Cancellous (spongy) bone is found where? The ends of long bones and the
middle of most other bones are the answers.
An osteon: what is it? ANSWER Lamellae and a haversion canal make up the
basic structural unit of bone.
Which lamellae are they? ANSWER Layers of compact bone encircling a
haversian canal in rings
The Haversian canals are traversed by which structures? ANSWER -Nerves -
Blood vessels
ANSWERS
What purposes do the bones serve? ANSWER: Blood production, electrolyte
balance, movement, support, protection, shape, and acid-base balance
Which shapes are used to categorize bones? Long bones, short bones, flat
bones, and irregular bones are the answers.
What components make up a long bone? ANSWER -Articular Cartilage,
Medullary Cavity, Endosteum, Periosteum, Epiphysis, and Diaphysis
Osetoblasts: What Are They? ANSWER: Bone cells aid in the formation of
bone.
Describe osteoclasts. The answer is that bone cells destroy diseased or
undesired bone.
Osteocytes: what are they? The mature osteoblasts that break down bone and
form new bone are bone cells.
Where can one locate compact bone? ANSWER - Long bone shafts, bone outer
surfaces
Cancellous (spongy) bone is found where? The ends of long bones and the
middle of most other bones are the answers.
An osteon: what is it? ANSWER Lamellae and a haversion canal make up the
basic structural unit of bone.
Which lamellae are they? ANSWER Layers of compact bone encircling a
haversian canal in rings
The Haversian canals are traversed by which structures? ANSWER -Nerves -
Blood vessels
