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Occipital bone
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What type of bone covers the surface of every bone?
The type of bone that covers the shaft of long bones is called compact bone.
What type of capillaries are found in bone marrow?
Sinusoidal capillaries...these are wide leaky capillaries found in bone marrow
What is the covering of the outer surface of bone?
The outer surface of the bone is called the periosteum.
What is the medical term meaning benign growth on the surface of a bone?
Osteomas is a general term for a bony growth on the surface of a bone, but there are many more specific diagnoses depending on the morphology of the tumor. A more specific type of benign tumor on the surface of bone is an osteochondroma, made up of both bone and cartilage. Exostosis is another type of bony growth on bone.
A bone that is longer than it is wide?
very very wide
What is the depression on the surface of a bone called?
Fossa = Shallow depression or dip in the surface of a bone Process = Bone marking which stick out from the rest of the bone
Bones thar form the boundaries of the orbital cavity?
Roof-Orbital surface of Frontal Bone Lateral wall-Orbital surface of Zygomatic bone Floor-Orbital surface of maxilla Medial wall-Lacrimal bone/Orbital surface of Ethmoid Bone Posterior wall-Orbital surface of greater/lesser wings of Sphenoid bone
Which type of bone provides a large flat surface area for muscle attachment?
Flat bones, like scapula
Which Bone has same width and length?
The patella(knee bone) is the closes bone that is as long as it is wide
Thickening on the surface of the calcaneus bone?
A thickening on the surface of the calcaneus bone is usually a heel spur.
What fibrous is covering the surface of bone that is involved in thickening of the bone?
periostem
What does the humerous bone?
Yes because the bone is longer then it is wide.
