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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| long bone | Long bones are hard, dense bones that are longer than they are wide and work as levers to help your body |
| Short Bones | A short bone is a cube-shaped bone where the length, width, and thickness are roughly equal to one another |
| Flat bones | Flat bones are thin, flattened, and often curved bones that protect internal organs and provide broad surfaces for muscle attachmen |
| Irregular Bones | Irregular bones are bones with complex, unique shapes that do not fit into long, short, flat, or sesamoid categories |
| Diaphysis | the main or midsection (shaft) of a long bone. |
| Epiphysis | the rounded end or tip of a long bone. |
| Epiphyseal Line | the solid bony remnant of the epiphyseal plate (growth plate) that forms in a long bone after childhood growth is complete. |
| Metaphysis | the wide, flared neck portion of a long bone located between the central shaft (diaphysis) and the rounded end (epiphysis) |
| Medullary Cavity | the hollow, central space inside the shaft of long bones. It is also known as the marrow cavity. |
| Yellow Bone Marrow | a soft, fatty tissue found in the central cavities of long bones that primarily stores energy and contains specialized stem cells. |
| Periosteum | The periosteum is a dense, fibrous membrane that covers the outer surface of almost all your bones. |
| Articular Cartilage | the smooth, white connective tissue that covers and protects the ends of bones where they meet to form joints. |
| Trabeculae | small, microscopic beams, struts, or rods of tissue that form a supportive framework inside organs and bones |
| Red Bone Marrow | the soft, spongy tissue inside bones that produces your body's red blood cells, white blood cells, and platelets. |
| Osteon | the main structural and functional unit of compact bone (the hard, outer layer of bones). |
| Haversian Canal | a microscopic, tubular channel located in the center of an osteon (the structural unit of compact bone) that carries blood vessels, lymphatic vessels, and nerve fibers to nourish bone cells |
| Osteocyte | a mature, living bone cell that is trapped inside the hardened bone matrix |
| Osteoblast | a specialized, cube-shaped cell responsible for forming new bone tissue and mineralizing the skeleton. |
| Osteoclast | a specialized, large bone cell that breaks down and resorbs old or damaged bone tissue |
| Canaliculi | microscopic canals or passageways found in various body tissues that allow nutrients, waste, or fluids to move between cells. |
| Lamellae | a thin plate, scale, membrane, or layer of tissue found across various biological and material structures. |
| Endosteum | a thin, vascular membrane of connective tissue that lines the inner surfaces of bones |
| lacuna | a gap, blank space, or missing part in something like a text, a logical argument, or a biological structure |
| Blood Vessels | the network of hollow tubes that transport blood throughout the body. |
| Arterioles | tiny blood vessels that branch off from larger arteries and connect to microscopic capillaries to distribute blood throughout the body |
| Venules | extremely small blood vessels that collect deoxygenated blood from capillaries and channel it into larger veins |
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