PHS 3504 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Bone Marrow, Bone, Ossification Center

• School: St. John's University
• Department: PHS - PHARMACEUTICAL SCIENCES
• Course: PHS 3504
• Professor: Jeanette C.Perron

Document Summary

The skeletal system includes bones of the skeleton, cartilage, ligaments and other connective tissues that stabilize and connect the bones. Epiphyses: the 2 ends of the bone: diaphysis: the middle of the bone or the shaft of the bone, metaphysis: the 2 middle sections of the bone, articular cartilage: this covers the 2 epiphyses. Cartilage found within a joint: marrow cavity (filled with red or yellow marrow): inside the bone. Bone structure (2 types of bones: compact bone (dense): hard, solid bone. Found outside the bones: osteon is a unit of compact bone, osteocytes are arranged around a central canal. Central canal is where the artery and vein are in the bone. Bone is mainly made up of a cell called osteocyte. It accounts for the majority of bone (cid:272)ells fou(cid:374)d i(cid:374) the (cid:271)o(cid:374)e, they do(cid:374)"t di(cid:448)ide a(cid:374)d (cid:373)ai(cid:374)tai(cid:374)s the protei(cid:374) a(cid:374)d (cid:373)i(cid:374)eral content of the matrix.