Skeletal System
Across
- 4. Elbow
- 6. includes arms, legs, and the girdles
- 7. Childhood disease; lack of Vitamin D
- 8. category of bones that are thin and curved
- 9. Moveable joint of the limbs
- 11. includes the clavicle and scapula
- 12. the female pelvis is ______ compared to the male pelvis
- 15. bone thinning disease
- 19. the shaft of a long bone
- 20. type of short bone
- 22. Fracture that is incomplete
- 23. found in the epiphysis of long bones
- 24. growth plate
- 25. has twelve vertebrae
Down
- 1. found in the epiphysis of adult bones; site of hematopoiesis
- 2. found in the medullary cavity of adult bones
- 3. Ulna and radius
- 5. red blood cell formation
- 10. abnormal curvature of the vertebrae
- 13. Immoveable joint (skull)
- 14. Bone tissue found in the diaphysis
- 16. Classification of fracture where the bone does not break the skin
- 17. two ends of bones forced into one another
- 18. ribs that have no anterior attachment
- 21. When a bone is forced out of its normal position
- 26. includes the skull, ribs, & vertebrae