Identify:

Macroscopic

• The orientation of the head of the femur, the epiphysial plate and the shaft of the femur.

Microscopic

• The different zones of endochondral bone development

• Osteoblasts and osteoclasts

• Bone marrow

Draw and annotate:

Each of the different zones of bone development.

1. What is characteristic of each of the zones?
2. What is characteristic of osteoblasts and osteoclasts and in which zones are they found?
3. Does your specimen have a secondary ossification centrum?

Microscope

Other

• Very low magnification
• Low magnification
• Low magnification
• Low magnification
• High magnification
• Bone development: High magnification
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