Bone Anatomy

Delivers nutrients and oxygen to the bone cells

• Yellow marrow

• Red marrow

• Blood vessel

• Medullary cavity

Enters and exits bone through the nutrient foramen

• Nerve root

• Blood vessel

• Adipose tissue

• Red marrow

Full of red marrow

• Compact bone

• Medullary cavity

• Nutrient foramen

• Spongy bone

Full of stem cells

• Yellow marrow

• Red marrow

• Periosteum

• Compact bone

Growth plates

• Epiphyseal plates

• Articular cartilage

• Periosteum

• Endochondral plates

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Has layers called lamella (type of bone)

• Spongy bone

• Compact bone

• Dense bone

• Layered bone

Hollow space inside the diaphysis

• Spongy bone

• Nutrient foramen

• Articular cavity

• Medullary cavity

How newly made blood cells leave the bone (not the hole)

• Blood vessel

• Red marrow

• Yellow marrow

• Epiphyseal foramen

Layer that lines the medullary cavity

• Periosteum

• Endosteum

• Articular cartilage

• Spongy bone

Layer that lines the outside of the bone

• Periosteum

• Endosteum

• Articular cartilage

• Compact bone