Functions:
- provides frame
- produces blood cells
- provides protection
- helps to breathe
- stores minerals
Types:
- Long Bones - larger than they are wide
- Short Bones - equal sized in width & length
- Flat Bones - thinner bones
- Irregular Bones - like parts of a jigsaw puzzle
- Compact - dense, hard. outer layers of the other bones
- Spongy - arranged in trabeculae
- not smooth
- have projections, bumps & depression
- Ossification - formation of bone
- Osteoprogenitor celss - non specialized cells found in the periosteum, endosteum, cnetral canal
- Osteoblasts - secretes a matrix of Ca
- Osteocytes - mature bone cells
- Osteoclasts - tears down bone material