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Heterotopic ossification is an abnormal deposit of bone in muscles and tendons that may occur after injury. It is most common in the hips and knees.
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What type of ossification occurs in the roof of the skull?
Intramembranous ossification
What is the type of ossification in bones preformed in cartilage?
Endochondral ossification! :)
Does ossification occur in exoskeletons?
Not really. Exoskeletons are chitinous and not subject to ossification because they are not bone but a dense form of protien.
Intramembranous ossification begins with what cells?
Intramembranous ossification begins when osteoblasts differentiate within a mesenchymal or fibrous connective tissue.
What is the depostion of minerals within the cartilage?
Ossification
What are symptoms of heterotopic ossification?
Initially heterotopic ossification causes localized swelling, warmth, redness, and stiffness of the muscle. It usually begins one to four months after the injury and is rare after one year.
How is heterotopic ossification prevented?
Etidronate disodium (Didronel), a drug that regulates the body's use of calcium, is used to prevent heterotopic ossification. Treatment begins three weeks after the injury and continues for 12 weeks.
What is used to treat heterotopic ossification?
Etidronate disodium (Didronel), a drug that regulates the body's use of calcium, is used to prevent heterotopic ossification. Treatment begins three weeks after the injury and continues for 12 weeks. Surgical removal of ossified tissue is possible.
When is a heterotopic tranplantation opted for?
When there is a possibility that the afflicted liver may recover, a heterotopic tranplantation is performed.
When is a heterotopic transplantation opted for?
When there is a possibility that the afflicted liver may recover, a heterotopic transplantation is performed.
What is the process of cartilage turning into hard adults bones?
Ossification
Most bones of the body form by which type of ossification?
Intramembranous ossification
Ossification of flat bones is called?
Intramembranous ossification
What are the two types of ossification?
Intramembranous and Endochondral Ossification
What is the process by which bones form?
ossification
What is the process of bone formation called?
Ossification (or osteogenesis) is the generic term for bone formation. There are two basic types: membranous ossification and endochondral ossification.
Ossification that involves replacing cartilage with bone is?
Endochondral ossification
