Anatomical, Muscular, and Skeletal
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Appendicular skeleton
Consists of fore and hind limbs
Axial skeleton
Consists of skull and vertebrae
Compound fracture
Bone breaks through the skin
Comminuted fracture
Bone shatters into many pieces
Diaphysis
Body of a long bone
Endosteum
Thin inner layer of bone covering; lines medullary cavity
Epiphysis
Enlarged ends of long bones
Fissure Fracture
Break along the long axis of a bone
Flat bone
Plate of bone
What is an example of a flat bone?
Scapula, Skull
Greenstick fracture
Break on one side of a bone, usually due to a bending force
Irregular bone
Complex and irregular shaped bone
What is an example of an irregular bone?
Vertebrae
Long bone
A bone that is longer than it is wide
What is an example of a long bone?
Femur
Medullary cavity
Space within the bone filled with marrow
Metaphysis
Joining point of epiphysis and diaphysis
Ossification
Process by which tissue and cartilage becomes bone
Periosteum
Thin outer layer of bone covering
Sesamoid
Small, seed-shaped bone embedded in a tendon
What is an example of a sesamoid
Proximal and Distal sesamoid
Short bone
Cube shaped bone
What is an example of a short bone?
Carpus, or Tarsus
Simple fracture
Bone does not break through skin