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| Bones of skull, thorax, and vertebral column. |
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Bones of the limbs and girdles that attach them to the axial skeleton.
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| Thin, roughly parrellel surfaces |
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AKA: Wormian bones
Irregular bones formed between cranial bones |
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| Relatively long and slender bones |
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Bones that have complex shapes.
Ex: vertebrae |
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| Small, flat, and somewhat shaped like a sesame seed. Develop in tendons of knee, hands and feet. |
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Small and boxy bones.
The bones in wrist (carpals) and ankles (tarsals) |
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| Mature bone cells that cannot divide |
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| Produce new bony matrix and become osteocytes once surrounded by bony matrix |
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| Mesenchymal (stem) cells that produce cells that differentiate into osteoblasts. Important in fracture repair |
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| Remove and remodel bone. Giant cells with 50+ nuclei |
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| Accounts for approximately 2/3 of bone weight |
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| Outer and inner surfaces of compact bone layer |
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| Fills spaces between osteons |
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| Osteoprogenitor cells differentiate into osteoblasts that add bone matrix under periosteum |
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| Incomplete cellular layer lining medullary cavity |
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| Intramembranous ossification |
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| Begins as mesenchymal (stem) cells differentiate into osteoblasts within embryonic or fibrous connective tissue |
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| Bones grow out into small struts |
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Epiphyseal cartilage grows unusually slowly.
Limbs are short and trunk is normal size. |
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| Overproduction of growth hormone before puberty |
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Growth hormone levels rise after epiphyseal plates close.
Bones get thicker, especially those in the face, jaw, and hands. |
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| Most abundant mineral in the body |
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| Break shaft across long axis |
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| Produced by twisting stresses. Spread along length of bone |
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| Produce new and abnormal bone arrangements |
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| In vertebrae subjected to extreme stresses |
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| One side of shaft broken, other side bent. Occurs mostly in children |
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| Shatter affected area producing fragments |
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