GD FIRST TIMERS CORE 2: Bones 2 (S-U)

If the blood didn’t flow correctly in the bones, the imprisoned osteocytes would die.

The picture below shows that the blood vessels in the Haversian Canals are inter-connected.

The maze-like bone on the far left of the picture above is what kind of bone?

As a person grows older, their bones grow longer and wider.

An older person like Michael Jordan the basketball player would have bones which would have been hugely helped through the years by cells living in them.

Imprisoned osteocytes can be a whopping 125-years old!