What electrolytes does the skeleton serve as a reservoir for?

What is the kind of bone tissue that makes up the outer part of bone?

What kind of bone tissue acts like a scaffolding that provides internal support to bone?

What is the tissue found in the spaces of trabecular bone where blood cells are produced?

Select the four bone cells

Which is a stem cell that is a precursor for other bone cells?

Which cell lays down the precursor for new bone?

What is the name of the organic tissue it makes that is the precursor to mineralized bone?

Which cell breaks down bone?

Mature bone cells

What 2 minerals and what protein make up most of the matrix of bone?

which provides flexibility to bone

which provides hardness to bone

What is the name of the small, parallel cylinders of bone that make up cortical bone?

By which process are the flat bones of the skull formed?

by which process is most bone formed?

what kind of cartilage is present in the epiphyseal plate?

What is the name of the zone between the diaphysis and epiphysis containing the epiphyseal plate?

in which does growth occur at the epiphyseal plate?

which results in bone lengthening?

In which does growth occur on the bone’s surface (producing circumferential lamellae), resulting in bone widening?

which can continue during adulthood?

Which is caused by a defect in cartilage of the epiphyseal plate?

Which is due to deficient growth hormone?

What 2 organ systems are most sensitive to blood calcium levels?

What are the 3 major hormones whose main functions are related to calcium regulation?

What 3 organs are involved in the production of Calcitriol (Vitamin D)

What are the best dietary sources of vit D?

Which hormone lowers blood calcium?

Which organ produces blood calcitonin?

To remove calcium from blood and deposit it in bone, what cell should be stimulated?

Which hormone raises blood calcium (and lowers phosphate) by stimulating break down of bone, increasing reabsorption of calcium (and loss of phosphate) from urine and stimulating vitamin D production?

To break down bone and release calcium, what cell should be stimulated?

Which 2 are directly related to vitamin D deficiency, which leads to soft, unmineralized bone?

which causes brittle bones?

What is the most common bone disorder?

which results from a chronic imbalance in the processes of remodeling resulting in a diminished amount of bone tissue

What organ controls how much calcium enters the body?

Which organ controls how much calcium exits the body

How can blood calcium levels be raised without changing the total amount of calcium in the body?

Which hormones are released when calcium levels are low?

Which hormone is released when calcium is too high?

Which hormones are released when calcium levels are low?