Essay On Bone Organs

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Bone as a Tissue and as an Organ All of the living organisms are composed of skeleton system is a group of bone that support for movement flexibly, protect both vital organs (e.g. heart) and non-vital organs (e.g. intestine), provide balancing of electrolyte and acid-base processes in the body, and also the formation of blood for daily routine. It is usually called bone that performs as an organ and as a tissue as well. All bone tissues organize and work together in an organ of bone of the body.
Generally, bone is composed with osseous tissue, nervous tissue, epithelial and muscle tissue. And the bone can divide into four types of bone. These are ‘flat bone’ (for example: skull and pelvic) which protects the soft organs (e.g., brain and heart) with curved shaped by wide and thin; shape does not fit in any category is called ‘irregular bone’ (e.g., spine); ‘short bone’ is shaped length and width equally to move softly across to another in several directions (for instance of this bone: tarsals in foot and carpals in hand) and shape is longer than wide, move rigorously and act upon by muscle, decisive for skeletal mobility in daily activities, is named ‘long bone’ (femur and tibia). Begin with the organ of bone consists of outer layer and inner portion. The outer structure is ‘compact bone’ which is dense and tough bone, and …show more content…

There are two main canals of osseous tissue; ‘central canal’ and ‘perforating canals’. The ‘central canal’ is detaining blood vessels and nerves parallelly the longest dimension of the bone is covered concentric cylinders of bone is called ‘lamellae’. In this canal, osteocytes located between lamellae are connected to each other by tiny cracks in the lamellae called ‘canaliculi’. Another cannal is called perforating canals which are perpendicular to the central canals joining them to blood and nerve supply at the superficial surface of

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