Gross Anatomy of Bone: Short, Flat, and Irregular Bones
6. Bones & Skeletal Tissue
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Short, Flat, and Irregular Bones
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We've been talking about the gross anatomy of bone in general. But now we want to take what we've learned and apply it to specific types of bone. We're gonna apply it first to short flat and irregular bones. And also at the end of the video, sesamoid bones, you'll see what's missing from this list is the long bones. Long bones have a unique structure that we're gonna go into more detail in a future video. We're starting with these bones because what we've learned so far applies pretty much directly to these types of bones. And that is that these bones on the inside. Well, they have spongy bone and to illustrate this, we have a diagram of a vertebrae here, vertebrae is an irregular bone and we've pulled one vertebrae out of the spine and we see it right here, a transverse view that we see in cross section. And if we look first at the body of the vertebrae, the anterior portion portion of the vertebrae here, we can see that the center of this bone that I'm gonna color in green is filled with all these little holes because that middle of that bone is the spongy bone. Now, the posterior portion of the vertebrae uh on these processes, it almost looks like a separate bone here. They are connected. But the this irregular bone, when you take a uh cross section of it, you're gonna see two different sections separately here. But you can see here, even though it's thinner, we still have this thin line of spongy bone that's making up the middle of this bone here. Now, that spongy bone is going to be lined with endosteum because remember endosteum is the connective tissue that lines the inside of bone. It's that real thin layer that has the bone stem cells in it. Now, in contrast, the outside of the bone is going to be compact bone. And again, we can see this in the diagram, I'm gonna color it in blue just all the way around the outside. There's this thin layer of compact bone. Now, remember spongy bone, each individual strut, well, when you put them together, it's quite strong, but each individual strut may not that be that strong on its own. So when you wrap them all with compact bone, it gives a nice strong outer layer that can give print protection and structure to the bone. And it also just sort of defines the edge of the bone really well. So the outside surface compact bone and of course, the outside of it is going to be lined with periosteum and periosteum. Remember has two layers, the osteogenic layer, which is right next to the bone, which has the bone stem cells and then the fibrous layer, which is all that collagen wrap in the bone. Ok. So that's the pattern that goes for short, flat and irregular bones. It also is true for sesamoid bones. With one exception, sesamoid bones have no perry peri ostium. And that's because the sesamoid bone remember is entirely enclosed in a tendon. So there's just no place for the for the periosteum to develop. Now, that does down the road, create some differences for how sesamoid bones grow and some physiological aspects of them. You usually don't need to worry about that that much though. Just know the sesamoid bone is inside the, the tendon. And so it doesn't have a periosteum. Again, this does not all apply to long bones. We're gonna talk about that in more detail coming up and I'll see you there.
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Gross Anatomy of Bone: Short, Flat, and Irregular Bones Example 1
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This example, wants to know what type of bone spongy or compact would you likely find on the inside lining of the cranial cavity closest to the brain? And to help us think about this, we have a picture of a skull and we have a mid sagittal section of the skull. So we can see inside the cranial cavity. And I'm just gonna draw a little arrows pointing to the part of the skull that we're interested in the part of these flat bones that make up the cranial cavity that inside lining there. Now, remember flat bones are this sandwich of compact bone, spongy bone, compact bone where spongy bones in the middle and spongy bone is that bone that's filled with all sorts of holes and compact bone is this dense, fairly solid bone that makes up the sides. So the inside lining, well, that's still the outside of the bone. And so that is still going to be compact bone. All right with that, like always we have practice problems to follow and I'll see you there.
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You are shown an image of a cross section of a bone. You decide it is likely a flat bone based on the structure. Without seeing the overall shape of the bone, how could you tell?
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You see yellow marrow in the spaces within the bone.
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There is no spongy bone present, only compact bone.
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You see a long thin sandwich of compact and spongy bone.
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The layer of spongy bone is at least twice the thickness of the compact bone.
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