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What are 3 types of skeletal cartilage?
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Hyaline, Elastic, Fibrocartlige
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What are the different types of cartilage growth?
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Appositional and Interstitial
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What are the bone classifications?
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Axial and Appendicular
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What are the 4 different bone types?
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Long, Short, Flat, and Irregular
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Bone Functions
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Suppport, Protection, Movement, Mineral Storage, and Blood cell formation
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What is compact bone?
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The external smooth solid layer of the bone
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What is spongy bone?
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The internal small needle-like or flat pieces
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What is Diaphysis
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The long shaft of the bone
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What is Epiphysis
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The bone ends
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What is the Epiphyseal line
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Between the diaphysis and each epiphysis of an adult bone
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What is the Epiphyseal plate
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A disc of hyaline cartilage that grows during childhood
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What is the periosteum
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External surface of the bone that is covered by a glistening white, double-layered membrane
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Whats an osteoblast
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Bone-forming cells
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Whats an osteoclast
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Bone-destroying cells
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Whats the red marrow cavity
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Red marrow is typically found within the trabecular cavities of spongy bone of long bones and in the diploe of flat bones. For this both the cavities are called this.
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