anatomy skeletal system
Across
- 4. Low bone density
- 6. Produces blood cells
- 7. Provides framework for the body
- 9. Soft spot in fetal skull
- 12. Reduces friction at joints
- 16. Maintain bone tissue
- 17. Bone growth from membranes
- 18. Bone formation process
- 20. Supports soft tissues
- 21. Cheek bone
- 23. Connects bone to bone
- 25. Spongy bone between orbits
- 27. Forehead bone
- 28. Protects the brain
- 30. Degeneration of joint cartilage
- 32. Bone growth from cartilage
- 37. Lower jaw
- 41. Ends of a long bone
- 43. Immovable skull joint
- 46. Tear of a ligament
- 47. Outer covering of bone
- 48. Upper jaw
- 49. Lateral curvature of spine
- 50. Dense bone with osteons
- 53. Skull, vertebrae, ribs, sternum
- 54. White blood cells
- 55. Lower sides of skull
- 56. Connects muscle to bone
- 57. Platelets
- 58. Produces blood cells
- 59. Build bone tissue
- 61. Hollow chamber containing marrow
Down
- 1. Lines the medullary cavity
- 2. Protects the spinal cord
- 3. Projection behind ear
- 5. Base of skull
- 8. Bones connected by cartilage
- 10. Side and roof of skull
- 11. Break down bone tissue
- 13. Tailbone
- 14. Bone with trabeculae and red marrow
- 15. Freely movable joints
- 19. Protects reproductive organs
- 22. Red blood cells
- 24. Attachment for ligaments and tendons
- 26. Vertebrae fail to close around spinal cord
- 29. Stores fat
- 31. Shaft of a long bone
- 33. Yellow marrow stores lipids
- 34. Disk nucleus protrudes, pressing nerves
- 35. Limbs and girdles
- 36. Vertebrae attached to ribs
- 38. Break in bone
- 39. Joints with no movement
- 40. Lower back vertebrae
- 42. Neck vertebrae
- 44. Bones act as levers for movement
- 45. Protects heart and lungs
- 51. Back of skull
- 52. Stores calcium and phosphorus
- 60. Fused vertebrae forming back of pelvis