Med Term Ch. 15
Across
- 3. vertebra (slash included)
- 4. 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. muscle makes up the voluntary or skeletal muscles that move all bones, as well as controlling facial expression and eye movements.
- 8. soft spot (incomplete bone formation) between the skull bones of an infant.
- 9. Flexible, connective tissue; found in the immature skeleton, at the epiphyseal growth plate, and on joint surfaces
- 10. Inflammation of any joint.
- 11. Injury, often the result of trauma, involving overstretching of the ligaments around a joint.
Down
- 1. Bone cell that helps form bony tissue.
- 2. vertebra (slash included)
- 5. Group of inherited diseases characterized by progressive weakness and degeneration of muscle fibers without involvement of the nervous system.
- 7. Fibrous connective tissue that binds muscles to bones.
- 9. muscle is striated in appearance but is like smooth muscle in its action.