Bones and Skeletal Tissue
Across
- 2. Longer than they are wide
- 3. The knobby irregular ends of long bones
- 5. Center portion of the skeleton
- 7. Small, rough process that provides attachment for tendons, ligaments, and muscles
- 9. White fibrous and cartilaginous tissue
- 12. Microscopic system in compact bone, giving bone its strength
- 13. General term for any bone projection
- 14. Joint cartilage
- 15. Large, smooth, ball-shaped end of a long bone
- 16. Helps maintains homeostasis
- 20. Makes up outer layer of bones
- 21. Narrow area just before the head
- 22. Porous bone that resembles a sponge
- 23. Large, rough process that provides attachment for tendons and muscles
- 25. Flatend/thin compact bone
- 28. Most abundant cartilage
- 30. Perpendicular canals to the central canals
- 32. A projection located above or on a condyle
- 34. Asymmetrical bones with rough surface area
Down
- 1. Blunt, rough, irregular surface found on a bone, muscle and tendon attachment
- 4. Multiple concentric layers that encircle the inside of an osteon
- 6. The flared end of a long bone
- 8. Bones that attach to the axial skeleton
- 10. Provides strength and elasticity
- 11. A line of cartilage passing through the epiphysis
- 17. Wider than it is large
- 18. The shaft/ long center portion of a long bone
- 19. Canal found in the center of an osteon
- 24. Membrane surrounding all compact bone
- 26. A bone that forms within a tendon
- 27. Connects muscle to bone
- 29. A large space that stores yellow bone marrow
- 31. Connects bone to bone
- 33. Smooth rounded portion of the end of a bone