Your skeleton isn't just a passive frame. It's a dynamic system that supports your body, enables movement, and protects vital organs. From storing minerals to producing blood cells, your bones are constantly at work.
Beyond structure, your skeleton is a living tissue. It undergoes continuous remodeling, stores energy, and works with to provide both strength and flexibility where needed. Your skeleton is truly the backbone of your body's functions.
Functions of the Skeletal System
Functions of skeletal system
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Supports body framework maintains shape and posture (upright stance)
Anchors soft tissues like muscles, tendons, and ligaments for stability
Enables movement by acting as levers for muscle attachment at joints allowing range of motion
Protects vital organs from external damage
encases brain
Ribcage shields heart and lungs
surrounds spinal cord
Bone storage and production
Stores essential minerals calcium and phosphorus in crystals within bone matrix
break down matrix releasing minerals into bloodstream when body needs them
incorporate minerals into new bone matrix during formation and remodeling
Yellow stores triglycerides as energy reserve for body
Red bone marrow produces blood cells through
Hematopoietic stem cells differentiate into red blood cells (), white blood cells (), and platelets ()
Occurs in of bones like , , , , proximal ends of long bones in adults
Plays a crucial role in by regulating mineral release and storage
Bone structure and remodeling
, mature bone cells, maintain bone tissue and respond to mechanical stress
, outer layer of bone, contains blood vessels and nerves for bone nourishment
lines inner bone surfaces and contributes to
Bone undergoes continuous remodeling to repair microdamage and adapt to mechanical forces
Bone marrow fills the inner cavities, supporting and fat storage
Bone vs cartilage in skeleton
Bone is hard mineralized tissue that supports body, protects organs, enables movement, stores minerals/fat, produces blood cells
Cartilage is flexible resilient connective tissue that cushions joints (articular cartilage), acts as template for bone development (), maintains shape of structures (nose, ears, trachea)
Cartilage provides smooth low-friction joint surfaces while bone provides structural support
During growth, cartilage at allows longitudinal bone elongation
Cartilage persists where flexibility needed () and bone dominates where strength and rigidity required ()
of bone and cartilage determine their functional roles in the