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ANSWERS 100% CORRECT
What are the functions of the bones? - ANSWER--Shape, Support, Protection,
Movement, Electrolyte balance, Blood Production, Acid Base Balance
What are the classification of bones by shape? - ANSWER--Long bones, short
bones, Flat bones, Irregular bones
What are the parts of a long bone? - ANSWER--Epiphysis, Diaphysis, Articular
Cartilage, Medullary Cavity, Endosteum, Periosteum
What are Osetoblasts? - ANSWER--Bone cell, helps form bone
What are osteoclasts? - ANSWER--Bone cell, dissolves unwanted or unhealthy bone
What are osteocytes? - ANSWER--Bone cell, mature osteoblasts that both dissolve
bone and deposit new bone
Where do you find compact bone? - ANSWER--Shafts of long bone, outer surfaces
of bone
Where do you find cancellous (spongy) bone? - ANSWER--Ends of long bone,
middle of most other bones
What is an osteon? - ANSWER-Basic structural unit of bone composed of the
lamellae and an haversion canal
What are the lamellae? - ANSWER-Compact bone in layers arranged in rings around
a haversian canal
What structures pass through the haversian canals? - ANSWER--Blood vessels
-Nerves
What are lacunae? - ANSWER--Gaps between the rings of the lamellae that contain
osetocytes
What are canaliculi? - ANSWER-Microscopic passage ways that connect the
lamellae to each other
Is there a specific lab test to identify whether a patient has fibromyalgia? - ANSWER-
No
Name the most common form of arthritis? - ANSWER-Osetoarthritis