Bone Parts Word Scramble
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| Question | Answer |
| Articular Cartilage | Hyaline cartilage where joints are formed |
| Spongy bone | helps reduce the bones weight; subjective to compressive forces; located largely in the epiphyses |
| Medullary cavity | hallow chamber that contains spongy bone |
| Yellow marrow | found in adults; stores fat |
| Compact bone | tightly packed tissues; extracellular matrix with no space |
| Periosteum | covers the entire bone; helps forms & repairs bone tissues |
| proximal epiphysis | closets to the center of the body |
| Diaphysis | shaft of the bone |
| distal epiphysis | furthest to the center of the body |
| Osteon | cyclinder shaped unit including bone cells that surround a central canal; haversian system |
| Perforating canal | connects and communicates with central canals |
| canaliculi | osteocytes communicate with nearby cells |
| osteocyte | bone cell |
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