Bones and Bone Tissue
Across
- 3. lubricant that minimizes friction and abrasion of joints
- 7. mixture of organic and inorganic materials
- 8. head of bone
- 9. residences of osetocytes
- 10. protects healing bone and serves as model for new bone growth
- 14. calls that digest bone matrix by secreting protease enzymes
- 15. layers of calcified matrix
- 19. bone-forming cells
- 20. site of blood storage
- 21. dense areas contain
Down
- 1. shaft of bone
- 2. promote bone differentiation
- 4. cells located in thyroid follicles,secrete calcitonin
- 5. longitudinal canal, carrying blood vessels and nerves
- 6. mature osteoblasts
- 11. promote plate growth
- 12. living tissue with active cells and blood supply that make structure in the body
- 13. site of fat storage
- 16. causes blood calcium to be deposited in bone
- 17. cavernous areas contain
- 18. disuse such as that caused by paralysis or severe lack of exercise results in bone