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Intramembranous and Endochondral Ossification
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What is the process of bone formation called?
Ossification (or osteogenesis) is the generic term for bone formation. There are two basic types: membranous ossification and endochondral ossification.
How was bones form?
There are two ways bones are formed, intramembranous ossification, and endochondral ossification. Intramembranous ossification is how the flat bones are formed, while the long bones are formed with endochondral ossification.
Which bone cell types is primarily responsible for initiating ossification of a bone?
osteoblast
What is the process of cartilage turning into hard adults bones?
Ossification
Most bones of the body form by which type of ossification?
Intramembranous ossification
Ossification of flat bones is called?
Intramembranous ossification
What is the process by which bones form?
ossification
Which ossification method would form a femur?
The femur is formed through the endochondral ossification process. This is where bone replaces the cartilage. There are six steps in this type of ossification and they are as follows; one the development of cartilage model, two the growth of the cartilage model, three the development of the primary ossification center, four the development of the medullary cavity, five the development of the secondary ossification centers, and six the formation of articular cartilage and the epiphyseal plate.
What bones is produced by intramembranous ossification?
Ossification means bone growth or formation. I will be disscussing breifly normal or physiological ossification because there is pathological ossification.There are two types of ossification in the human body: endochondral and intramembranous. Most of the bones in the human skeleton , especially the long and short bones, develop via endochondrial ossification, but some including the clavicle and most of the bones of the skull( flat bones) are formed by the intramembranous type. Intramembranous ossification , the source of most of the flat bones, is so called because it takes place within condensations of mesenchymal tissue and not by replacement of pre-existing piece of hyaline cartilage as the case in endochondral ossification. The frontal and parietal bones of the skull, as well as parts of the temporal and occipital bones and the mandible and maxilla, are formed by intra membranous ossification. This process also contributes to the growth of short bones and the thickening (not the lengthening) of long bones.
Ossification that involves replacing cartilage with bone is?
Endochondral ossification
What type of ossification occurs in the roof of the skull?
Intramembranous ossification
What is the type of ossification in bones preformed in cartilage?
Endochondral ossification! :)
