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