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Skeletal System
bones
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skeletal system | made of organs called bones: framework, protection, levers, production of blood cells, and storage. |
diaphysis | The shaft,or middle section of a long bone. |
epiphysis | the end or head at the extremity of along bone. |
medulary canal | inner, or central portion of a long bone. |
yellow marrow | soft tissue in the diaphyses of long bones. |
endosteum | a membrane that lines the medullary canal and keeps yellow marrow intact; produces some bone growth. |
red marrow | soft tissue in the epiphyses of long bones. |
periosteum | fibrous membrane that covers the bones except at joint areas (contains blood vessels,lymph vessels,and necessary for bone growth,repairthutnition. |
axial skeleton | the bones of the skull,rib cage,andspinal column:the bones that form the trunk of the body |
appendicular skeleton | forms the extremities and is composed of the shoulder girdle,arm bones,peluic girdle,and leg bones |
cranium | the sphenical structure that surrounds+protedstha it is made of 8 bones:1 frontal;2 panetal;2 temporal;l occipital; lethmoid;1 sphenoid;at birth-not solid bone. |
fontanels | soft spots |