Bones & Osteology

Bones and bone anatomy
- Mnemonics is the use of letters to recall words or sentances. This link has some bone mnemonics to help you learn bones.
- Bones, bone markings and joint movements. This link is an excellent start or preview for bone anatomy that is the core of your laboratory experience into bone anatomy.
- How are real skeletons or natural bone skeletons cleaned? Click Here. Discovery Channel's Dirty Jobs series with Mike Rowe shows how its done. It is a dirty job to clean bones and the skeleton.
Osteology [ bone biology]
- Here is a good introduction to bone formation, growth and repair.
- Bone formation uses tow methods: endochondran and intramembraneous
- Ossification is the process of bone formation. This animation shows the basic sequence.
- Bone structure, growth and maintaenance.
Bone diseases or pathophysiology
- Fractures, fracture repair, osteoporosis and osteoarthritis are reviewed and explained in this link.
Tests
- Test yourself on osteology (bone anatomy and physiology)
- Bones, bone markings and joint movements. This link is an excellent start or preview for bone anatomy that is the core of your laboratory experience into bone anatomy.