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What is Long bones?
Type of bone that is longer than it is wide.
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What is Diaphysis?
The shaft of the long bone.
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What is Medullary Cavity?
The internal cavity of the diaphysis of a long bone that contains bone marrow.
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What is Trabeculae?
Bony rods that make up a lacy network of cancellous bones and are oriented to increase weight-bearing capacity of long bones.
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What is Short bones?
Types of bone that are as broad as they are long.
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What is Epiphyses?
The growth plate of the long bone?
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What is Bone Marrow?
Specialized tissue found within bone that manufactures most erythrocytes.
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What is Canaliculi?
The nutrients that is received by the cancellous bone.
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What is Flat bones?
Types of bones that are relatively thin and flattened.
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What is Physis?
The major site of bone elongation, located at each end of a long bone between the epiphysis and metaphysis; also called the growth the growth plate.
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What is Girdles?
The bony belts that attach the extremities to the axial skeleton.
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What is Osteons or Haversian Systems?
The lamellae are oriented around these blood vessels in units.
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What is Compact bone?
Bone that is mostly solid, with few spaces.
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What is Metaphysis?
The area of a long bone where the diaphysis and epiphysis converge; where the physis (epiphysis plate) is located.
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What is Appositional Growth?
The formation of new bone on the surface of a bone.
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What is Cancellous bone?
Bone that is made up of a lacy network of bony rods called trabeculae.
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What is Endosteum?
A layer that lines the inner surfaces of bone.
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What is Endochondral Growth?
The growth of cartilage in the physis and its eventual replaced by bone.
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