Medical Terminology Skeletal System Crossword
Across
- 2. medical term for the synovial membrane or synovial fluid
- 5. a fracture that does not create a wound
- 8. medical term for swayback
- 10. visual examination of joints
- 13. medical term for rib
- 16. a fracture in which the bone is bent and not completely broken
- 17. abnormal increase in forward curvature of lumbar spine
- 19. a fracture that twists around the bone
- 20. a fracture that breaks through the skin
- 21. medical term for stiffness,bent, crooked
- 23. nuclear imaging test that helps diagnose bone disease
- 24. inflammation of joints
- 25. a suffix that means to bind or tie together
- 26. medical term for a joint
- 27. an area where two or more bones join together
- 28. sac that acts as a cushion to ease movements
- 29. a fracture in which the bone is splintered/crushed
Down
- 1. connects bone to bone
- 2. partial displacement of a bone from its joint
- 3. loss or absence of mobility
- 4. medical term for spinal cord or bone marrow
- 6. abnormal softening of cartilage
- 7. abnormal increase in the outward curvature of the thoracic spine
- 9. x-ray
- 11. suffix that means to loosen or set free
- 12. red makes blood cells, yellow stores fat
- 13. a specialist that treats mis-alignments of the spine
- 14. total displacement of a bone from its joint
- 15. smooth, rubbery, blue-white connective tissue
- 18. medical term for bent or hump
- 22. a fracture that is straight across the bone