BCP 201 GD: Bones 5 M-P (First Timers)

Osteoporosis is a malfunction of the brain. It tends to affect more men than women.

Osteoporosis affects the wrist, the hip and the vertebrae a lot.

Osteoporosis affects the wrist, the hip and the vertebrae mostly because these areas are high in the amount of trabecular bone?

Osteoporosis affects trabecular bone greatly. It makes each of these “struts” thinner and more porous.

The image below is showing that osteoporosis can happen in the lumbar vertebrae and the head of the clavicle.

The ribs connect to the clavicle.

The sternum (the flat bone in the middle of your chest) only runs partly down the front of your chest because you need room for your intestine to expand.

Piezoelectricity is a type of electricity generated by squeezing an object like a crystal.

It was thought that the osteocytes read the fluid pressures in the canaliculi.

Up to about how many “caves” connect to each buried osteocyte cell?

Peter Curie, the brother of Mary Curie, worked on borax experiments in the early 1600’s. He and his sister experimented with the static electricity generated by squeezing logs filled with sargasso termites.