The Skeletal System: Osseous Tissue and Skeletal Structure

consisting of the bones of the limbs and the associated bones that connect the limbs to the trunk at the shoulders and pelvis

bone; one of the supporting connective tissues

mature bone cells; osteon - bone

small chambers occupied by osteocytes; sandwiched between layers of calcified matrix

matrix layers; lamella - a thin plate

channels; "little canals"; radiate through the matrix from lacuna to lacuna and toward free surfaces and adjacent blood vessels

cells that are cuboidal in shape and are found in a single layer on the inner or outer surfaces of a bone; blast - precursor

a material that becomes mineralized through a complicated, multistep mechanism

the production of new bone; gennan - to produce

contained in bone tissue; small numbers of flattened or squamous-shaped stem cells; progenitor - ancestor

large, multinucleate cells found at sites where bone is being removed

erosion process; increases the calcium and phosphate concentrations in body fluids

relatively dense and solid

forms an open network of struts and plates

contains bone marrow and the stem cells that produce adipocytes and red and white blood cells

a loose connective tissue that may be dominated by adipocytes or by a mixture of mature and immature red and white blood cells

adipocytes

stem cells that produce red and white blood cells

the erosion of bone tissue; thought to be caused by a combination of decreased osteoblast activity and overactive osteoclast activity