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| Bones that provide protection for underlying soft tissues and offer an extensive surface area for the attachment of skeletal muscles. |
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| Bones that are generally small, flat, and shaped somewhat like a seamoid, which develop inside tendons and are most commonly located near joints at the knees, the hands, and the feet. |
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| The expanded area found at each end of the bone. |
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| A narrow zone that connects the epiphysis to the shaft of the bone. |
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| A tunnel that penetrates the diaphysis and provides access for the nutrient artery and/or vein. |
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| Mature bone cells that maintain the protein and mineral content of the surrounding matrix through the turnover of matrix components. |
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| Makes and release the protein and other organic components of the matrix and assist in elevating local concentrations of calicum salts deposited in the organic matrix. |
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| Cells that remove and recycle bone matrix. |
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| Fills in the space between the osteons in compact bone. |
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| An incomplete cellular layer that lines the medullary cavity. |
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| Endochondral Ossification |
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| The replacemement of a cartilaginous model to bone. |
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| Developing bone grows outward from the ossification center in samll struts. |
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| Inadequate producation of growth hormone that leads to reduced epiphyseal cartilage activity and adnormally short bones. |
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| The epiphyseal cartilages of the long bones grow unusally slowly and are replaced by bone early in life. |
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| An overproduction of growth hormone before puberty. |
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