bones

     

Bones are rigi organs that form part of the endoskeleton of vertebrates. They function to move, support, and protect the various organs of the body, produce red and white blood cells and store minerals. Because bones come in a variety of shapes and have a complex internal and external structure, they are lightweight, yet strong and hard, in addition to fulfilling their many other functions. One of the types of tissues that makes up bone is the mineralized osseous tissue, also called bone tissue, that gives it rigidity and honeycomb-like three-dimensional internal structure. Other types of tissue found in bones include marrow, endosteum and periosteum, nerves, blood vessels and cartilage. There are 206 bones in the adult body and about 300 bones in the infant body.

Trivia about bones

  • From the Old Germanic for "legs", it's Dr. McCoy's nickname
  • The calcium you get from eating sardines is coming from these parts
  • Examples include the scaphoid & the scapula
  • To sense something intuitively is to "feel it in" these calcium storehouses
  • Archaeologists measure the fluorine in these animal remains to determine their relative age
  • Temperance Brennan is accused of mishandling an autopsy in Kathy Reichs' "206" these body parts
  • Call a cop! You're born with 300 of these, but by the time you grow up you only have 206
  • Turn on Fox to see David Boreanaz & Emily Deschanel solve crimes on this series
  • (Dr. Drew Pinsky reports.)Drinking sodas may decrease the density of these, as calcium is drawn from them to balance the overall ratio with phosphorus
  • My dog Rover says not to boil the knuckle type of these before giving them to him -- it may cause splintering
  • Of teeth, bones or an esophagus, the one sharks don't have
  • An adult human is supported by 206 of them
  • Encyclopedia Americana says an infant has about 350 of these, but a typical adult only 206
  • Comfrey helps bruises & sprains & even helps these knit together
  • In games slang, dominoes & dice are known as these
  • T.J. Thyne as Dr. Jack Hodgins, an expert on insects, spores & minerals at the Jeffersonian Institute
  • We dig forensic anthropologist Dr. Temperance Brennan on this Fox drama
  • This material, such as your stapes, is formed by ossification
  • Call a cop!You're born with 300 of these, but by the time you grow up you only have 206
  • "Femurs & Clavicles "
  • Domino pieces are sometimes called these because they were originally made of ivory
  • Ossicles