Skeletal System
Across
- 1. Disease that weakens and thins bones
- 3. mature bone cell
- 9. the process of bone formation
- 11. Another name for spongy bone
- 13. Fibrous connective tissue that attaches muscle to bone
- 14. small channel between lacunae
- 15. bone forming cell
Down
- 2. bone resorbing cell
- 4. accumulation of calcium salts
- 5. Another name for compact bone
- 6. thin membrane covering the interior of the bone
- 7. fibrous connective tissue that attaches bone to bone
- 8. small gap between lamellae that house osteocytes
- 10. Another name for a Haversian system; includes 1 Haversian canal, surrounding lamellae connected by canaliculi, osteocytes in lacuna
- 12. thin membrane covering the exterior of bone