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Osteoclasts

Test your knowledge about bone cells with this quiz! Learn about osteoclasts, osteocytes, and osteoblasts, and how they contribute to bone formation and maintenance. Explore concepts like lacunae, lamellae, canaliculi, and haversian canals. Challenge yourself and enhance your understanding of bone biology.

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Which type of bone cell is responsible for dissolving bone away from mature osteocytes?

Osteoclasts

What is the function of osteoblasts?

Forming bone

Where are osteocytes found?

In lacunae

What connects each lacuna and osteocyte with nutrient blood vessels?

<p>Canaliculi</p> Signup and view all the answers

What are the concentric layers of bone matrix called?

<p>Lamellae</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is the function of mature osteocytes?

<p>Trapped in hard bone matrix</p> Signup and view all the answers

What type of cells were osteocytes once?

<p>Osteoblasts</p> Signup and view all the answers

Where are nutrient blood vessels found in the bone?

<p>In the central or haversian canal</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is the function of osteoclasts?

<p>Dissolving bone away from mature osteocytes</p> Signup and view all the answers

Which type of gland discharges their secretion products directly into the blood or interstitial fluid?

<p>Endocrine glands</p> Signup and view all the answers

Which type of gland discharges their secretion products into ducts?

<p>Exocrine glands</p> Signup and view all the answers

Which type of gland collects their secretory products near the apical face of the cell and then releases them into a duct by pinching a vesicle off the distended end?

<p>Apocrine glands</p> Signup and view all the answers

Which type of gland collects their secretory product inside the cell and then self-destructs/ruptures to release it?

<p>Holocrine glands</p> Signup and view all the answers

Which type of gland discharges their secretion product directly through the cell or cytoplasm membrane without injury or cytoplasm loss?

<p>Exocrine glands</p> Signup and view all the answers

Which type of gland is often called ductless glands?

<p>Endocrine glands</p> Signup and view all the answers

Which type of gland is responsible for producing skin oil?

<p>Simple branched alveolar glands</p> Signup and view all the answers

Which type of gland is responsible for producing sweat?

<p>Simple alveolar glands</p> Signup and view all the answers

Which type of gland is responsible for producing milk?

<p>Compound alveolar glands</p> Signup and view all the answers

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