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The periosteum.
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What is the tight fitting membrane that covers the surface of the bone?
The priosteum
What is the tight-fitting membrane that covers the surface of the bone?
The priosteum
Is the tough fibrous membrane that covers the shaft of the long bone?
the periostenum
What is the tough fibrous membrane that covers the shaft of the long bone?
the periostenum
What is the fibrous membrane that covers the bone?
here's the answer. the outer layer of the bone is covered by fibrous membrane known as periosteum, which is the place where the muscles adhere.
What is a tough fibrous membrane that covers the shaft of a long bone?
The dense fibrous tissue that covers non articulating surfaces of bone is the periosteum.
What is the function of the membrane that covers compact bone?
A membrane called the periosteumcovers the outer bone to provide nutrients and oxygen, remove waste, and connect with ligaments and tendons.
Beneath the outer membrane of bone there is a layer of?
yes it covers the entire outside of the bone.
What is the surface of a bone covered with a thick fibrous membrane?
the periosteum covers the bone everywhere there is not articular cartilage
What is the membrane that covers the bone?
Those "membranes" are called periosteum. The periosteum is how bone gets part of its blood supply.
Is the bone matrix non living?
The matrix of the bone (calcified hydroxyapatite) is non-living; the living part of the bone are the cells (osteoblasts, osteocytes, osteoclasts) and the periosteum, a tough membrane that covers the bone and allows tendons and ligaments to attach to the bone.
What connective tissue surrounds the diaphysis of long bone?
periosteum : tough fibrous connective tissue membrane that covers the outside of the diaphysis. this protects the bone and serves as a point of attachment.
