Bone Formation

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Flashcards covering key definitions, processes, figures, and factors involved in bone formation, lengthening, thickening, and remodeling from Chapter 6.

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Ossification

The process of bone formation

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Four Situations of Bone Formation

  • When bones grow before adulthood

  • During embryological and fetal development

  • When bones remodel

  • When fractures heal.


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Endochondral Ossification

occurs at the epiphyseal plates of long bones as they grow in length.

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Bones thicken

Because of osteoblasts and osteoclasts

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Osteoblasts

Deposits bone on the outer surface

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Osteoclasts

Widen the medullary cavity from within

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Factors affecting bone growth and remodeling

  • Minerals

  • vitamins

  • hormones


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Types of ossification

Intramembranous and endochondral

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Intramembranous

Occurs in flat bones when a connective tissue membrane is replaced by bone

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Endochondral

Replaces cartilage with bone is the developing embryo and fetus