Description

Looks like frosted glass and provides support with flexibility and resilience.
Forms the long axis of the body and includes the bones of the skull, vertebral column, and the rib cage.
Resembles hyaline carilage but it contains more elastic fibers to withstand repeated bending.
Highly compressible and has great tensile strength. Occurs in sites that are subjected to heavy pressure and stretch.
Consists of bones located in the upper limbs, lower limbs, and the girdles that attach the limbs to the axial skeleton.
Also called cancellous bone, and is a honeycomb of small needle-like or flat pieces called trabeculae.
A dense outer layer that appears smooth and solid to the naked eye, found in every bone.
Forms the long axis of bone.
Are the bone ends.
A glistening white and double-layered membrane that, except for the joint surfaces, covers the external surface of the entire bone.
Bone forming cells that are found in the inner osteogenic layer.
Bone destroying cells that are found in the inner osteogenic layer.
Hematopoietic tissue.
Runs through the core of each osteon and contains small blood vessels and nerve fibers.
A spider shaped mature bone cell that occupies the lacunae at the junctions of the lamellae.
A break in bone.
A fibrous membrane that is found at the angles of cranial bones that accommodate brain growth in the fetus and infant.
Bones joined together by fibrous tissue and no joint cavity is present.
Inflammation of the joints.
Freely moveable joints that exhibit a joint cavity.
A band of regular fibrous tissue that connects bones.
Decreased density and strength of bone due to a gradual decrease in the rate of bone formation.
A type of synovial joint where the axis of a convex articular surface is parallel with the longitudinal axis of the bone.
A disease present in children due to a lack of vitamin D, and is characterized by imperfect calcification, softening, and distortion of bones.
A fluid-filled sac or saclike cavity, especially one countering friction at a joint.
A chronic progressive disease that causes inflammation in the joints, and it results in painful deformity and immobility, especially in the fingers, wrists, feet, and ankles.
A synovial joint which only allows gliding movement.
A lifelong process that removes mature bone tissue from the skeleton and new bone tissue is formed.
A synovial joint where the oval articular surface of one bone fits into a complementary depression in another, and it allows angular motions.
A synovial joint where a cylindrical projection of one bone fits into a trough-shaped surface on another, and the allowed motion resembles a mechanical hinge.
A synovial joint that resembles a condyloid joint, but it allows a greater amount of freedom of movement.
A synovial joint where the spherical head of one bone articulates with the cuplike socket of another, and it allows universal movement.

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