Irregular bone
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| Irregular bone | |
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| Latin | os irregulare |
| Gray's | subject #17 80 |
| Dorlands/Elsevier | o_07/12598430 |
The irregular bones are such as, from their peculiar form, cannot be grouped as long bone, short bone, or flat bone. Irregular bones serve a unique purpose in the body of combining: (1) protection of nervous tissue (such as the vertebrae protect the spinal cord), (2) affording multiple anchor points for skeletal muscle attachment (as with the sacrum) , and maintaining pharynx and trachea support, and tongue attachment (such as the hyoid bone).
They consist of cancellous tissue enclosed within a thin layer of compact bone.
The irregular bones are: the vertebræ, sacrum, coccyx, temporal, sphenoid, ethmoid, zygomatic, maxilla, mandible, palatine, inferior nasal concha, and hyoid.
There are five general classifications of bones: (1) Long bones, (2) Short bones, (3) Flat bones, (4) Irregular bones, and (5) Sesamoid bones.
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bone: ossification (intramembranous, endochondral, epiphyseal plate), cycle (osteoblast, osteoid, osteocyte, osteoclast), types (cancellous, cortical), regions (epiphysis, diaphysis), structure (osteon/Haversian system, Haversian canals, endosteum, periosteum, Sharpey's fibres, lacunae, canaliculi, trabeculae, medullary cavity, bone marrow), shapes (long, short, flat, irregular, sesamoid) |
