Med Term Ch. 15

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Across
  1. 3. vertebra (slash included)
  2. 4. Bone cell that helps form bony tissue.
  3. 6. Fibrous connective tissue that binds muscles to bones.
  4. 7. muscle makes up the voluntary or skeletal muscles that move all bones, as well as controlling facial expression and eye movements.
  5. 8. muscle makes up the involuntary or visceral muscles that contract to move internal organs such as the digestive tract, the walls of blood vessels, and secretory ducts leading from glands.
  6. 9. muscle is striated in appearance but is like smooth muscle in its action.
  7. 11. Flexible, connective tissue; found in the immature skeleton, at the epiphyseal growth plate, and on joint surfaces
Down
  1. 1. Group of inherited diseases characterized by progressive weakness and degeneration of muscle fibers without involvement of the nervous system.
  2. 2. soft spot (incomplete bone formation) between the skull bones of an infant.
  3. 5. vertebra (slash included)
  4. 8. Injury, often the result of trauma, involving overstretching of the ligaments around a joint.
  5. 10. Inflammation of any joint.