Lab Week 4

Bones that lie around the bodys center of gravity

Bones of the limbs or appengades

Cover the bone ends at movable joints

Found connecting the ribs to the sternum (breastbone)

Largely construct the larynx (voice box)

Reinforce other passageways of the respiratory system

Support external nose

Separate and cushion bones of the spine (vertebrae)

Perichondrium

Looks smooth and homogeneous

Composed of small trabeculaeof bone and lots of open space

Much longer than they are wide

Cube shaped contain more spongy than compact

Generally thin with two wafer like layers of compact bone sandwiching a layer of spongy bone between them

Bones that do not fall in any other the categories

Four skull bones maxillary, sphenoid, ethmoid, and frontal

Thoracic and sacral curvatures

Cervical and lumbar curvature, come with walking and holding up head.

Sternum, ribs, and thoracic vertebrae

Indentions between the bones of the fetal skull and are fibrous proteins