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  • components of the skeletal system

    bones, cartilage, ligaments, and tendons

  • what do ligaments anchor

    bone to bone

  • what do tendons connect

    muscle to bone

  • hyaline cartilage

    key features: semi-rigid, more flexible than bone, attaches ribs to sternum, covers end of bones, epiphyseal plates

  • fibrocartilage

    weightbearing, withstand compression, located in the intevertebral discs, pubic symphysis, and knee

  • general functions of bones

    support and protect, movement (bones act as levers for muscles), storage (phosphorus and calcium, lipids in yellow bone marrow and Hematopoiesis for blood cell productionin red bone marrow

  • classification of bones by shape

    long, short, flat, and irregular

  • long bone

    longer than wide most common shape, bones of the upper and lower limbs (femur and humorous)

  • short

    short and thicker, nearly equal to width, carpals and tarsals

  • flat bone

    thin, flat, may curve, muscle attached for portection, located in the roof of skull, sternum and ribs

  • irrecular bone

    complex shape that fits no other category, vertebrae and ethmois and sphenoid

  • patella

    The patella is a sesamoid bone (it forms in a tendon), which is grouped with the short bones.