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What is a soft yellow or red sustance found in the central cavities of the bones?
This substance is called marrow. Red marrow is found in most bones of children, and is where red and white blood cells are made and mature. Yellow marrow is found in most adult bones, and is mostly composed of fat. The red marrow in childrens bones is slowly converted to yellow marrow as we age. In a middle-aged adult, usually only flat bones still contain red marrow.
Do children's books affect you as an adult?
More or less, yes.
Red bone marrow is associated with what kind of bone tissue?
Flat bones in adult and almost all bones in children
Why might adults and children have different kinds of marrow?
At birth, all bone marrow is red. With age, more and more of it is converted to the yellow type. About half of adult bone marrow is red. Red marrow is found mainly in the flat bones. In cases of severe blood loss, the body can convert yellow marrow back to red marrow to increase blood cell production.
What function is performed in the bone marrow but not in the ossified bones of the skeleton?
Red bone marrow makes red blood cells and this is found in all infant and children's bones. In adults most of the red marrow has been replaced with yellow marrow which is fat tissue. Bones that are ossified have fully formed and are adult bones.
Site of hematopoieses in the adult?
Bone marrow
What would you find in the marrow cavity of the diaphysis of an adult humerus?
In the marrow cavity of an adult humerus, you would typically find yellow bone marrow, which consists mostly of adipose tissue. Yellow bone marrow stores fat and does not actively produce blood cells unless needed in times of severe blood loss or specific medical conditions.
Site of fat storage in the adult?
yellow marrow cavity
What is the site of fat storage in the adult?
the yellow marrow cavity
What does yellow marrow store?
Yellow bone marrow mostly stores and is made up of fat cells. The yellow bone marrow makes up about half of the adult human bodies bone marrow.
What system of the body produces blood?
Bone marrow in an adult, bone marrow and spleen in an infant, spleen and liver in a fetus.
What is the difference between red marrow and yellow marrow?
the principal site of hemopoises is the red bone marrow of the sternum. whereas yellow bone marrow in certain long bones of an adult produces rbcs wbcs and platelets.
