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      • Bones contain 99.9% of the body's stock of which mineral?
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      • What is the mineral component of bones which makes them rigid?
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      • What does the osteoclast do to bone?
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      • What does the osteoblast do to bone?
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      • [...] are cells which destroy bone.
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      • [...] are cells which synthesize bone.
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      • [...] bone contains red bone marrow.
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      • [...] bone contains yellow bone marrow.
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      • The skeleton is completely renewed every [...] years.
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      • What is a medullary cavity?
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      • The [...] is the cavity in the middle of a compact bone which contains yellow bone marrow.
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      • Osteoclasts burrow through compact bones, leaving behind tunnels called [...].
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      • How long does newly formed bone matrix take to mineralise?
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      • What is an osteocyte?
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      • Osteoblasts lay down new bone matrix in concentric circles called [...].
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      • Osteocytes exhange nutrients through [...].
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      • Osteocalcin is a marker of which tissue?
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      • Osteoclasts resorb bone and leave behind traces called [...].
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      • What is the chemical reaction which allows osteoclasts to degrade bone?
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      • What are the 4 major types of cells found in bone?
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      • The medullary cavity of a compact bone is filled with [...] bone marrow.
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      • Which 2 ions are stored in bone?
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      • Is bone mineralized?
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      • What are the 2 types of ossification processes?
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      • Which kind of ossification depends on cartilage?
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      • What are 2 other names for spongy bone?
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      • What is another name for compact bone?
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      • Flat bones are a sandwich of [...] bone between 2 layers of [...] bone.
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      • Can bone grow appositionally?
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      • Can bone grow interstitially?
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      • The non-articular surface of bone is covered by [...].
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      • The medullary cavity of a bone is lined with [...].
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      • The [...] of the bone, between the diaphysis and the epiphysis, contains the growth plate.
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      • Immature bone is [...] in type, while both compact and spongy bone are [...].
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      • A Haversian system/osteon is surrounded by a [...] of mineralized matrix.
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      • In spongy bone, lamellae are apposed to form [...].
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      • In spongy bone, how are trabeculae arranged?
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      • Osteoprogenitor cells are derived from [...] stem cells.
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      • Where are osteoprogenitor cells found in spongy bone?
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      • Where are osteoprogenitor cells found in compact bone?
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      • Calcium deposition in bone formation is [...]ted by pyrophosphate.
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      • Osteoblasts secrete the enzyme [...], which neutralizes the inhibitory effects of pyrophosphate on Ca2+ deposition.
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      • [...] cells are found at the surface of bone when it is not being remodelled.
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      • Osteoclasts derive from [...] stem cells.
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      • The ruffled border of osteoclasts is made of [...].
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      • Osteoclasts secrete [...] to demineralise bone matrix.
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      • Osteoclasts secrete [...] to degrade the organic components of bone matrix.
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      • [...] ossification occurs when bone develops from a pre-existing cartilage model.
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      • [...] ossification occurs when bone develops in mesenchyme.
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      • In the growth plate of a bone, the zone of [...] is where the chondrocytes are quiescent.
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      • In the growth plate of a bone, the zone of [...] is where chondrocytes proliferate to give longitudinal columns.
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      • In the growth plate of a bone, the zone of [...] is where chondrocytes enlarge and the matrix calcifies.
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      • In the growth plate of a bone, the zone of [...] is where chondrocytes die and lacunae are invaded by osteoclasts, osteoprogenitor cells, and capillaries.
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      • In the growth plate of a bone, the [...] zone is where osteoblasts lay down bone on top of the remaining calcified cartilage.
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      • Newly formed woven bone is also known as [...].
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