Bones flash cards

Fibrous membrane surrounding bone

Layerof hyaline cartilage found at joints covering epiphysis

Found at each end of the long bones

Shaft of long bones between the bone's epiphyses

The marrow cavity is located in the hollow center

Membrane that lines the medullary/marrow cavity

The hollow center of the diaphysis of a long bone. It is lined with spongy bone and stores marrow

Bone structure where there is not heavy stressed coming from one direction or where stresses come from many different directions

• AKA dense bone
• Seals the outer surface of bones and found wherever stress on bone arrives from only one dirction

Sm spaces in matrix between the lamellae of an osteon

Osteocytes are found here

• Supportive columns within compact bone.
• Looks like a cross cut of a tree trunk

• Mature bone cells that maintain mineral and protein components of bone matrix.
• Found within the lacunae

• Small diffusion channels radiating outward from a central canal.
• Facilitates nutrients, gas and waste exchange between the blood and bone

• AKA Haversian Canal
• Longitudinal canal in center of an osteon that contains blood vessels and nerves
• Intersects with perforating canal

• Canal running perpendicular to osteons and intersecting with central canals
• Serves as a passage for nerves, blood vessels, and lymphatic vessels through the periosteum and into the bone

• The lattice or meshwork of bony struts found in spongy bone. Space inbetween trabeculae house red marrow
• Unlike compact bone - NO osteons!

• The ring like structures that occur underneath the periosteum and wrap around the entire bone
• Circumferential lamellae are added as bone grows in diameter

Found between intact osteons and are remanents of old osteons that have been partially removed as the bone remodels

The calcified matrix rings of an osteon

Bones comprised of 2 epiphysis and diaphysis

No epiphysis, bones almost as wide as they are long, boxy shaped

• Bones that form inside of tendons
• The largest sesamoid bone is the patella and looks like a nut

Thin and platelike bones but they can be shaped or curved like the skull or ribs

• Bones that do not fit in the other categories
• Examples: vertebrae

Usually in skull, they occur where interlocking joints of the skull branch and isolate a small piece of bone.

Any projection or bump

Extension of a bone making an angle with the rest of the structure

Large, rough projection

Small, rounded projection

Prominent ridge

Low ridge

Pointed process

Expanded articular end of an epiphysis, separated from the shaft by the neck

Smooth, rounded articular process

Smooth, grooved articular process shaped like a pulley

Small, flat articular surface

Shallow depression

Narrow groove

Rounded passageway for blood vessels or nerves

Passageway through the substance of a bone

Elongated cleft

Chamber within a bone, normally filled with air