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Musculoskeletal CHIMA NCE
Review Questions with Detailed
Verified Answers Graded A+
What are the functions of the bones? Ans: -Shape, Support, Protection,
Movement, Electrolyte balance, Blood Production, Acid Base Balance
What are the classification of bones by shape? Ans: -Long bones, short bones,
Flat bones, Irregular bones
What are the parts of a long bone? Ans: -Epiphysis, Diaphysis, Articular
Cartilage, Medullary Cavity, Endosteum, Periosteum
What are Osetoblasts? Ans: -Bone cell, helps form bone
What are osteoclasts? Ans: -Bone cell, dissolves unwanted or unhealthy bone
What are osteocytes? Ans: -Bone cell, mature osteoblasts that both dissolve
bone and deposit new bone
Where do you find compact bone? Ans: -Shafts of long bone, outer surfaces
of bone
Where do you find cancellous (spongy) bone? Ans: -Ends of long bone,
middle of most other bones
What is an osteon? Ans: Basic structural unit of bone composed of the
lamellae and an haversion canal
Musculoskeletal CHIMA NCE
Review Questions with Detailed
Verified Answers Graded A+
What are the functions of the bones? Ans: -Shape, Support, Protection,
Movement, Electrolyte balance, Blood Production, Acid Base Balance
What are the classification of bones by shape? Ans: -Long bones, short bones,
Flat bones, Irregular bones
What are the parts of a long bone? Ans: -Epiphysis, Diaphysis, Articular
Cartilage, Medullary Cavity, Endosteum, Periosteum
What are Osetoblasts? Ans: -Bone cell, helps form bone
What are osteoclasts? Ans: -Bone cell, dissolves unwanted or unhealthy bone
What are osteocytes? Ans: -Bone cell, mature osteoblasts that both dissolve
bone and deposit new bone
Where do you find compact bone? Ans: -Shafts of long bone, outer surfaces
of bone
Where do you find cancellous (spongy) bone? Ans: -Ends of long bone,
middle of most other bones
What is an osteon? Ans: Basic structural unit of bone composed of the
lamellae and an haversion canal
