Cartilage, Bones and Joints
Across
- 1. Cells responsible for resorbing bone during the growth and remodelling of these bones?
- 4. _________ ossification where bone forms directly in mesenchyme CT
- 6. Rounded ends of bones (usually covered in articular cartilage)
- 7. Another name for spongy bone
- 8. What cell develops into an osteoblast?
- 11. Most common type of cartilage
- 12. Classify the sacrum in terms of the type of bone (osteology)
- 14. plate After birth, what is the main site of longitudinal growth of long bones?
- 15. Dense (ir)regular CT surrounding bone
- 17. Dense, (ir)regular connective tissue which surrounds cartilage
- 19. young, immature cartilage cells that eventually form chondrocytes via a process of chondrogenesis
- 20. the space housing the osteocytes in bones and chondrocytes in cartilage
- 21. Mature cartilage cells
- 22. Classify the metacarpals in terms of the type of bone (osteology)
- 23. ______ forms the shaft of long bone
- 26. Cartilage that contains many elastic fibres in matrix
- 28. ______ growth: bone growth which results in the lengthening of the bone
- 29. Classify the ribs in terms of the type of bone (osteology)
- 30. Fibrocartilage does not have _____________
Down
- 2. Type of (small, round) bone imbedded within a tendon
- 3. Classify the carpals in terms of the type of bone (osteology)
- 5. _____ growth: bone growth that results in the increase in the diameter of bones by the addition of bony tissue at the surface of bones
- 9. tough, very strong cartilage type found predominantly in the intervertebral disks
- 10. What do chondroblasts secrete?
- 13. Most common joint and allows good movement between bones
- 16. _________ ossification where hyaline cartilage is replaced by bone
- 18. Structural units of compact bone (aka as Haversian systems)
- 24. ______________ bone can only grow by appositional growth
- 25. unmineralized bone matrix
- 27. What specialised type of hyaline cartilage covers the gliding surfaces of synovial joints to reduce friction/forces?