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What type of tissue are bone and cartilage?
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Connective
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What are the three major types of cartilage?
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Hyaline Cartilage, Fibrocartilage, and Elastic Cartilage
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Elastic Cartilage is located where?
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Epiglottis and Eustachian Tube
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Name one place that hyaline cartilage is found.
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Nose, Diarthroidal joints covering long bones, Growth Plates
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Fibrocartilage is permanently present in which three major locations in the body. Name two of the three locations.
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The intervertebral disks of the spine, as a covering of the mandibular condyle in the temporomandibular joint, and in the meniscus of the knee.
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What are the three major zones of cartilage?
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Superficial/Tangential (10-20%), Middle (40-60%), Deep (30%)
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Which zone in cartilage contains the highest collagen content?
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Superficial or Tangential. The outermost layer.
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What are the four types of bone?
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Long, Short, Flat, and Irregular
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Examples of Long Bone:
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The femur (thigh bone), The Humerus (upper bone in the arm) and The Phalanges (fingers and toes).
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Examples ofShort Bone:
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The Carpals (small bones in the base of the hand) and Tarsals (in the feet).
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Examples of Flat Bone:
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Skull (cranium), Ribs, Scapula (shoulder blade), Sternum (breast bone) and The Pelvic Girdle.
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Examples of Irregular Bone:
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The Vertebrae and Some Facial Bones
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Name two types of cells involved in bone growth.
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Osteoblasts and Osteoclasts
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Purpose of the perichondrium
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To resist out ward expansion when the cartilage is compressed
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Perichondrium made of what?
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Dense irregular connective tissue
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