Skeletal System Vocab

the end of a long bone

• articular cartilage

• diaphysis

• processes

• epiphysis

hyaline cartilage that covers the ends of bones in synovial joints

• articular cartilage

• periosteum

• compact bone

• diaphysis

the shaft of a long bone

• epiphysis

• diaphysis

• spongy bone

• periosteum

fibrous connective tissue covering on the surface of the bone

• articular cartilage

• periosteum

• spongy bone

• diaphysis

dense tissue in which cells are organized in osteons with no spaces

• diaphysis

• compact bone

• spongy bone

• diaphysis

bone that consists of bars and plates separated by irregular spaces; cancellous bone

• compact bone

• medullary cavity

• processes

• spongy bone

a prominent bone projection

• marrow

• processes

• medullary cavity

• endosteum

cavity containing marrow within the diaphysis of long bone

• medullary cavity

• processes

• endosteum

• osteocytes

tissue lining the medullary cavity within a bone

• endosteum

• osteocytes

• marrow

• medullary cavity

Tags

NGSS.HS-LS1-4

connective tissue in spaces within bones that includes blood-forming stem cells

• intramembranous

• osteocytes

• marrow

• processes