Introduction to the Skeletal System

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Across
  1. 4. Shaft of a long bone
  2. 5. Dense bone tissue in which cells are organized in osteons without apparent spaces - cortical bone
  3. 6. Bone that begins as hyaline cartilage that is subsequently replaced by bone tissue
  4. 7. Cell that breaks down bone matrix
  5. 8. Branching bony plate that separates irregular spaces within spongy bone
  6. 9. Mature bone cell
  7. 13. Dense connective tissue covering the surface of a bone
Down
  1. 1. Cavity containing red or yellow marrow within the diaphysis of a long bone
  2. 2. Hyaline cartilage that covers the ends of bones in synovial joints
  3. 3. bone that consists of bars and plates separated by irregular spaces - cancellous bone
  4. 10. Either end of a long bone
  5. 11. Any of the small canals through which the blood vessels ramify in bone
  6. 12. Bone-forming cell