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Bone (ground cross section)

   

Workbook tasks

Slide 13: Ground bone

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This is a cross ground section of macerated bone.

Identify:

Macroscopic

  • The unstained white-yellow compact bone.

Microscopic

  • Haversian system

  • Haversian and Volkmann's canals

  • Lacunae and Lamellae

  • Canaliculi

  • Interstitial lamellar systems

  • Circumferential lamellar systems

 

Draw and annotate:

A section of bone in which all three types of lamellae and their components are indicated.

 

Reflection:
  1. How are the lacunae and lamellae arranged in the three systems respectively?
  2. How are the lamellae and lacunae arranged with respect to one another?
  3. What course do the canaliculi take?
 

Slides

Microscope

Section of ground bone

Other

Cross section of dry bone
Cross section of dry bone
Cross section of dry bone to illustrate a Haversian system
Cross section of dry bone to illustrate a Haversian system

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