Skeletal, Muscular, and Nervous Systems
Across
- 3. strong, flexible connective tissue that acts as a cushion between two bones, reducing friction
- 4. connect bones to enable them to move
- 10. _____ muscles are attached to bone and cause body movements
- 13. largest and most complex part of the brain
- 15. three-inch-long stalk of nerve cells and fibers connecting the spinal cord to the brain
- 16. process by which bone is formed, renewed, and repaired
- 17. muscle that closes a joint
- 18. a break in a bone
Down
- 1. nervous system disorder categorized by frequent seizures
- 2. cerebral ____ is a group of neurological disorders resulting from damage to the brain
- 5. when a bone slips out of place
- 6. inflammation of a tendon
- 7. muscle that opens a joint
- 8. second largest part of the brain
- 9. nerve cells
- 11. band of fibrous, slightly elastic connective tissue that attaches one bone to another
- 12. ____ muscles act on the lining of the body's passageways and hollow internal organs
- 14. _____ muscle is a striated muscle that forms the wall of the heart