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They provide passageways for blood vessels to enter the bone.
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How can the structure and function of bone be described?
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What does a nutrient artery do?
It is a large artery that supplies the central medullary cavity of a long bone with nutrients and oxygen.
The what is the structure of the periosteum?
AnswerThe Periosteum serves as an attachment point for muscles and bones through tendons and ligaments. -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Or, Inner layer can breakdown and build bone cells. Not necessarily its "function". It's a fibrous membrane covering (of bone), attached by fibers that happen to enter into bone, "Sharpey's fibers"; allowing nerves, and blood / lymphatic vessels to pass though it and then into bone through nutrient foramina. The periosteum covers bone and provides nourishment to the bone through the blood vessels and nerves contained within it.
What is the structural and function feature of the epiphysis?
Epiphysis are found at both ends of a long bone. They are made of cancellous bone filled with marrow. They have a bulbous shape and function to provide attachments for muscles and give stability to joints.
What is the purpose of a long bone?
along bone is longer than it is wideLong bones have a thick outside layer of compact bone and an innermedullar cavity containing bone marrow. The ends of a long bone contain spongy bone and an epiphysis line. The epiphysis line is an area that contains a sort of cartilage
What the function of the short bone?
Short bones are defined as being approximately as wide as they are long and have a primary function of providing support and stability with little movement.
What does the humerous bone?
Yes because the bone is longer then it is wide.
What are the functions of the long bone and the short bone and the flat bone and the irregular bone?
short bones are mostly spongey bones and help hold shape and keep structure strong, flat bones usually protect or help with movementeg. the skull, sternum and scapula, long bones are also sponget bones that hold the shape of the body so that joints can function and move and irrregular bones are the miscelanious type of bone that varies in function, each one is different, eg. mandable and vertebrae.
What class of bone does femur belong to?
The femur is a long bone.
When shooting in netball what bones are used?
the bones used in shooting in netball is the humerus (long bone), ulna (long bone), radius (long bone), wrist - carpals and metacarpals (short bones), femur (long bone), patella (flat bone), tibia (long bone) and the fibula (long bone)
What are the functions of the two type of bone tissue?
Two types of bone tissue are compact bone and spongy bone. Compact bone functions as the basic supporting tissue of the body. Spongy bone's function , meanwhile, is to make up most of the short, flat, and irregular bones in your body. It also makes up the ends of long bones.
Is femur a long short flat or irregular bone?
It is the thigh bone. It is the longest bone in the body.
