Bone Histology
Across
- 1. mature bone of the outer cortex
- 7. largest component of bone extracellular matrix by weight
- 8. the shaft of a long bone
- 10. [Ca10(PO4)6(OH)2]
- 11. a thin rod of immature bone
- 12. bone eating cells
- 15. term used to describe the organic component of bone ECM
- 18. 'little canals' containing the arms of bone cells
- 20. one other name for immature bone
- 22. mature bone formed from interlocking rods
- 23. mature bone cells living in lacunae
- 24. the end of a long bone
Down
- 2. phosphate loving matrix vesicle enzyme, (8, 11 with 9-down)
- 3. squash inside the bony medulla
- 4. quiescent bone-lining cell found lining the internal surfaces of bone
- 5. embryonic connective tissue from which bone cells are born
- 6. glycoprotein that binds bone cells to the ECM
- 9. see 2-down
- 13. fancy name for the bone of 22-across in the flat bones of the skull
- 14. tangential rival of English physician Dr. Havers
- 15. bone protein that collects and concentrates calcium during mineralization
- 16. the main collagen of bone
- 17. small collagen bundling proteoglycan that is more than just an ornament
- 19. type of lamellae that appear as partial versions of 21-down in the bone cortex
- 21. structural unit of 1-across