Your Amazing Body Mends a Broken Bone

Craaack! Breaking a bone hurts! But did you know that your amazing body starts to mend the break straight away? That ache happens because damaged nerve cells send out a cry for help. In response, red blood cells rush in to bring oxygen and nutrients. White blood cells clean up the dead bone muscle cells.

Blood also brings fibroblast cells. They build a sort of scaffolding around the break so that new bone will fill in.  And stem cells arrive to transform themselves into cells taht will make brand-new bone. The whole area becomes an active construction site as your amazing body battles the damage and heals itself.

Get a close look at your amazing body with comic illustrations and ground-breaking photomicrographs. The photomicrographs magnify the actual cellular processes tens of thousands of times, offering you a front-ro seat for all the action.

Age - 7+
Grade -2nd
Author -  Vicki Cobb
Publisher - Lerner Books
Format - Paperback
Pages - 32
Dimension - 14.8 x 0.4 x 22.7 cm