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| A way that cartilage grows from the outside |
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| A way that cartilage grows from the inside. |
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| The external layer of a bone |
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| Spongy or cancellous bone |
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| The needle-like, flat pieces that make up the honeycomb of the spongy bone. |
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| The long axis of the long bone |
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| The bone ends in long bones |
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| The white, double-layered membrane that covers the external surface of the bone except the joint surfaces. |
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| The delicate connective tissue membrane that covers the internal bone surfaces. |
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| Actively mitotic stem cells found in the membranous periosteum and endosteum. |
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| The structural unit of compact bone. It is an elongated cylander oriented parallel to the long axis of the bone. |
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| The organic part of the matrix. Includes ground substance and collagen fibers. |
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| The process of bone formation. |
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| Intramembranous Ossification |
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| The formation of cranial bones of the skull and the clavicles. All bones formed by this process are flat bones. |
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| Endochondral Ossification |
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| The formation process of all bones of the skeleton below the base of the skull, except for the clavicles. |
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| The two processes of bone deposit and bone resorption. |
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| Projections, depressions, and openings that serve as sites of muscle, ligament, and tendon attachment, as joint surfaces, or as conduits for blood vessels and and nerves. |
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| Type of bone marking. Large rounded projection; may be roughened. |
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| Type of bone marking. Narrow ridge of bone; usually prominent. |
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| Type of bone marking. Very large, blunt, irregularly shaped process(the only examples are in the femur). |
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| Type of bone marking. Small rounded projection or process. |
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| Type of bone marking. Raised area on or above a condyle. |
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| Type of bone marking. Sharp, slender, often pointed projection. |
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| Type of bone marking. Any bone prominence. |
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| Type of bone marking. Boney expansioncarried on a narrow neck. |
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| Type of bone marking. Smooth, nearly flat articular surface. |
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| Type of bone marking. Round articular projection. |
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| Type of bone marking. Armlike bar of bone. |
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| Type of bone marking. Canal-like passageway. |
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| Type of bone marking. Shallow, basinlike depression in a bone, often serving as an articular surface. |
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| Type of bone marking. Furrow. |
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| Type of bone marking. Narrow, slitlike opening. |
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| Type of bone marking. Round or oval opening through a bone. |
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