BCP 101 GD First Timers: Bones 2 (I-L)

The gentle Clydesdale horse can weigh 4000-pounds. He has a massive number of caves in his bones!

The fluid flowing through the canaliculi “bone caves” gives the living osteocyte cell ”prisoners” food and oxygen.

Osteoblast cells get buried and go through a type of metamorphosis (a change) which makes them into osteocyte cells.

Canaliculi caves are found in the super-dense, super-hard compact teeth. They play a critical part in keeping imprisoned osteocytes alive.

There are 1 million osteon logs laying side-by-side in a cubic inch of compact bone.

An osteon is about the exact size of an upper eyelash.

About ten living osteocyte cells are buried in each lamellae ring of an osteon.