Bones and Skeletal Tissue

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