Exam 6: Bones and Skeletal Tissues

While on spring break from college, June fell on the pavement and broke her wrist. At the emergencyroom, a resident placed a cast on her wrist after manipulating the bones. It seemed to heal within a few months. Now, decades later she has noticed lumps in the area where the break happened and she has been complaining of pain. What could be causing the lumps and the pain?

In the epiphyseal plate, cartilage grows ________.

Spongy bone contains________.

Compare the starts of intramembranous ossification and endochondral ossification.

What can a deficiency of growth hormone during bone formation cause?

Explain why swimming is not generally recommended as an exercise to prevent osteoporosis.

Bones are covered and lined by a protective tissue called periosteum. The inner (osteogenic)layer consists primarily of________.

Select the bone disorder in which bone resorption outpaces bone deposit, leaving the person with thin and often very fragile bones.

Which of the following is not a function of the skeletal system?

Ossification of the ends of long bones ________.

The term diploë refers to the ________.

Choose the structures that most directly provide nutrients and remove wastes from osteocytes in compact bone.

What is found in a central (Haversian) canal?

Which hormone increases osteoclast activity to release more calcium ions into the bloodstream?

All bones stop growing by the end of adolescence.

The trabeculae of spongy bone are oriented toward lines of stress.

A fracture in the shaft of a bone would be a break in the ________.

In newborn infants, the medullary cavity and all areas of spongy bone contain yellow bone marrow.

Cartilage grows in two ways, appositional and interstitial. What is appositional growth?

Create an analogy for the chemical composition of bone using highway construction.