Bones

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