Skeletal Crossword

2. connected to the ribs via the costal cartilages
6. Bone-destroying cells
8. Forms the forehead and the superior part of the eyes.
9. Forms the the posterior wall of the skull and allows the cord to connect with the brain through the foramen magnum
12. Protects the heart lungs and spaces in between them are fillde with intercostal muscles.
13. Broken bone ends are forced into each other
15. fracture is caused by excessive twisting of bone
16. broken bone pentrates skin
17. bone breaks into 3 or more pieces
18. The tailbone
19. Forms the roof of the nasal cavity and forms part of the walls of the orbits.
22. mature bone cells
23. Forms posterior wall of the pelvis and connects with the coccyx
24. bone is pressed inward, typical bone fracture
25. Make up the face of the bone and twelve are paired and only the vomer and mandible are one.
27. typical in children, bone breaks incompletely
28. Bone crushed, common in osteoporatic bones in older people
29. bone is made of small needle-like pieces and has little open spaces for nerves
30. Largest and strogest bone in the face joins the temporal bones on each side of the face

1. Form the walls of the sides of the cranium
3. Each bone in this area is massive and kidney bean shaped. Most stress on the vertebrae column is on this part
4. Form a good sized portion of the orbit's walls
5. Every bone join this bone except the mandible. It is the main bone of the face. Carries upper teeth by the alveolar process
7. does not penetrate skin
10. Connected to the ribs and is larger than the cervical vertebrae
11. Contains, styloid process, zygomatic process, mastoid process, and jugular foramen.
14. Forms the neck. The atlas and axis which is the first two bones allows us to nod yes or no.
20. Bone-forming cells
21. bone is dense and appears homogenous
26. Forms the wall of the optic canal, and contributes to the nasal cavity by the sphenoidal sinuses. It is shaped like a butterfly.