#bones notes

Femur -- longest bone in the body -- top part of the leg

Tibia -- shinbone -- lower part of the leg

Fibula -- outside of the leg -- skinny bone

Patella -- kneecap

Tarsals -- foot bones close to the ankle

Metatarsals -- long bones of the feet

-- intramembranous bones develop from sheet-like layers of undifferentiated connective tissue

-- the broad, flat bones of the skull form as intramembranous bones

-- osteoblasts deposit a bony matrix around themselves in all directions

-- this forms spongy bone

-- once the osteoblasts have encased themselves within the matrix, they are called osteocytes

-- cells of the membranous tissue surround the developing bone give rise to the periosteum

-- osteoblasts on the inside of the periosteum form a layer of compact bone over the spongy bone

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-- humerus

-- ulna

-- radius

-- carpals      -- scaphoid      -- trapezium      -- capitate      -- trapezoid      -- lunate      -- triquetrum      -- pisiform      -- hamate

-- metacarpals

-- phalanges