Skeletal System
Across
- 2. gelatinous substance composed of red and white blood cells in a variety of developmental forms
- 6. longer in one axis than in another
- 7. digest bone matrix by secreting protease enzymes
- 13. have two or more different shapes
- 14. fatty connective tissue
- 15. replaces calcified cartilage
- 16. metabolic and calcium exchange with blood
- 18. extension at the ankle and wrist joints
- 19. your body’s central framework
- 20. tiny canals connecting lanunae
Down
- 1. involved in repair of bone fractures
- 3. the end of a long bone
- 4. the cavity of the diaphysis
- 5. stimulates plate growth
- 8. cube-shaped with a thin cortex of compact bone and have no cavity
- 9. the shaft of a long bone
- 10. occurs by intramembranous and/or endochondral ossification
- 11. more flat than round
- 12. nonliving structural part of bone
- 17. bone-forming cells that secrete collagen