01:377:213 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Ultimate Tensile Strength, Periosteum, Long Bone

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Storage of minerals - where the calcium comes in. Blood cell production - bone marrow forms all the part of the blood. Leverage - support and movement of bones create a point of leverage for muscle to pull on. Protection - bones and cartilage provide pretension to house the sensitive organs and parts of the. Osseous tissue - a supporting connective tissue. Bone tissue and its supporting type of connecting tissue. Matrix of bone consists of calcium phosphate. Osteoblasts - immature that become a mature bone cells. Osteoclasts - secrete acid that breaks down bone. Spongy bone - trabecular or cancellous bone. Conducts stress from one end of the long bone to the other end of the long bone. Long bones aren"t great at resisting compression at a perpendicular angle. Resists stresses applied from many different directions. Helps somewhat resist the side forces but if the force is big enough the bone will break.

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