Bones
Across
- 3. Cell responsible for reabsorbing bone
- 7. Tubular shaft that runs between the proximal and distal ends of a long bone
- 9. Production of blood cells that occurs in the red marrow of the bones
- 10. Process during bone growth by which bone is resorbed on one surface of a bone and deposited on another
Down
- 1. Bone formation
- 2. Channels within the bone matrix that house one of an osteocyte’s many cytoplasmic extensions that it uses to communicate and receive nutrients
- 4. Cell responsible for forming new bone
- 5. Membrane that covers cartilage
- 6. Bone markings where part of the surface sticks out above the rest of the surface
- 8. Basic structural unit of compact bone; made of concentric layers of calcified matrix