PART 2

• •THE STUDY OF BONES , THE HARDEST STRUCTURE IN THE BODY
• a hard structure, appears yellowish-white in color in a fresh dead bone, while in the living animal it appears bluish pink.
• also called cancellous or trabecular bone
• also called cortical bone, surrounds spongy bone
• It is made up of delicate plates, which intercross each other forming a meshwork with spaces containing marrow
• developed in direct ratio to the stress to which the bone is subjected. It is thicker in the shafts of long bones than in their extremities
• occupies the interstices of spongy bone everywhere and medullary cavity of long bones at birth
• consists of ordinary adipose tissue
• thin layer of hyaline cartilage that coversthe articular surface
• layer of hyaline cartilage that separates
• •It is a thin membrane lining the medullary cavity and osteonal (Haversian) canals.

  •It is also called as medullary membrane.
• It is the membrane, which invests the outer surface of the bone It is the membrane, which invests the outer surface of the bone
• Muscles are attached to bones by tendons