What is the purpose of the skeletal system?

The skeletal system serves many purposes. It helps to support the structure of our body, and helps us to improve and gain movement abilities. The skeletal system also serves to protect our body's organs and helps to produce blood cells.

What are the main organs in the skeletal system?

The main organs in our skeletal system are our bones, cartilage, ligaments, and tendons.

Bones Cartilage

What are the functions of these organs?

The organs in your body help support your body, protect your internal organs, allows movement, store minerals, and to allow blood cell production.

Blood Cell Production

What can go wrong in the skeletal system?

The many diseases that can occur in the

skeletal system are metabolic bone diseases

such as osteoporosis, osteomalacia, and

other rare conditions. Osteoporosis is a common disease, usually on the elderly, resulting in loss of bone tissue. Some other diseases can be very fatal such as tumors, rickets, osteosarcoma, and osteogenesis imperfecta.