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Skeletal system, bones and joints - Coggle Diagram

- - - - framework
      - supports soft tissue
      - attachment of muscles via tends
    - - body cavities
    - - muscle contraction
      - pulling bones at joints
    - - reservoir for
        
        Ca, P, Na, K
      - can be mobilised and distributed to other regions by blood
    - - hematopoeisis
- - - - libs, curved, longer than wide
    - - cuboidal shape, length=width, spongy bone
    - - thin, flat, curved
    - - complicated shape
    - - makes RBC, WBC
      - infants
        
        medullary cavity, areas of spongy bone
      - adults
        
        spongy area of flat bones, head of femur, humerus
    - - inorganic