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What bones are approximately the same width length and height?
Short Bone
What does it mean if the 50 cm femur and the epiphyseal discs are completely ossified?
50cm is about the length of an adult - and when a bone is completely ossified, that means that bone has stopped growing.
If a bone measures from the 22 cm mark to midway between the 50 cm and 51 cm mark its length is how many mm?
That means the bone is 28 1/2 cm long. 10 mm in a cm. 285 mm
What does radius mean?
Radius is half of the diameter of a circle. (How far the middle is to an edge) The diameter of a circle is how far one side is from the other going through the center of the circle.The word is also applied to the shorter of the two bones of the forearm, running from the elbow to the thumb side of the wrist. The other forearm bone is the ulna.
What is a ephiphyseal line?
Epiphyseal line is the junction between diaphysis (long part of the bone) and epiphysis (growing end of the bone). This is the region where the growth of bone takes place. Gradually as an individual approaches puberty, the epiphysis fuses with the bone and the growth stops.
What is it called when a bone increases in size?
When the bone increases in diameter, it is called appositional growth.
What is it called when individual grows to adulthood is the thickness (diameter) of bone increased?
Appositional growth is the process by which old bone that lines the medullary cavity is reabsorbed and new bone tissue is grown beneath the periosteum, increasing bone diameter.
Why is the fibula unique?
The fibula bone is unique because it is so slender. Remarkably, it is small in diameter compared to its length.
Bones increase in length by the process of?
by the formation of more bone cells i.e. osteocytes
What systems are affected by osteoporosis?
Osteoporosis is a disease that increases bone weakness, and increases the risk of a broken bone.
Appositional growth of a long bone has the effect of?
Increasing the diameter of the bone
Is length important for bone strength?
Length is very important for bone strength because the longer the bone, the weaker the bone, and the shorter it is, the stronger it will be.
What body system are affected by osteoporosis?
Osteoporosis is basically a severe loss of bone density.
What structure allows bones to grow in thickness?
Bones grow in length by endochondral ossification. It begins with cartilage that acts like a model of the bone that will grow. The bone grows in length and diameter(appositional). the structure that allows this is the epiphyseal cartilage that seperates the epiphysis from the diaphysis. When the bone is fully grown this cartilage will become bone and simply the epiphyseal line.
How does smoking affect the health of bones?
smoking inhibits osteoblast (the rebuilding of bone) and promotes osteoclast (bone breakdown) These two process are an ongoing process within your body. Because a substance in cigarettes increases the function of one and inhibits the other you are more likely to have bone issues, such as osteoporosis.
How does ipriflavone treat medical condtions?
Ipriflavone prevents rapid bone loss, increases bone density, decreases bone fractures, reduces bone pain, increases mobility, lowers high cholesterol levels, some activity against cancer.
Which appendicular bones have a styloid process?
Styloid process of the ulna & radius.The temporal bone, the radius bone, and the ulna bone.
