Skeletal System

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Across
  1. 1. The process that turns cartilage to bone in newborn children
  2. 6. Roughly cube-shaped type of bone
  3. 8. A fibrous, cellular, vascular, and highly sensitive life support sheath for bone
  4. 9. Describes bone often found in the epiphyses
  5. 10. A break from one side of the bone that doesn't go completely through
  6. 11. Decreases plasma calcium by increasing it's absorption by bone
  7. 13. Responsible for bone lengthening
  8. 15. Principal supportive structure of the body
  9. 18. Make bone
  10. 20. Two heads of a long bone
  11. 21. A possibly fatal condition where there is a marked reduction below plasma calcium's critical limits
Down
  1. 2. Due to a rupture in a spinal disc; disc is replaced by bone surgically
  2. 3. Best teacher
  3. 4. A hole through which nerves and blood vessels pass
  4. 5. Stimulate bone growth
  5. 7. Joint that permits flexion, extension, abduction, and external rotation
  6. 12. A type of marrow that is composed of red and white blood cells
  7. 14. Shaft of a bone
  8. 16. Lubricant that minimizes friction of joint surfaces
  9. 17. Turn the moving bone about its axis
  10. 19. To bend a joint or decrease the angle between the bones of the joint