Skeletal System
Across
- 3. Cells that build bone
- 6. Rings of bone matrix
- 7. Center of osteon
- 9. Structural unit of compact bone
- 11. Cells that maintain bone
- 12. Structures that connect bone to muscle
- 13. Site of bone growth
- 14. Stem cells that give rise to osteoblasts
- 16. Shaft of a long bone
Down
- 1. Cells that dissolve or carve bone
- 2. Spaces between lamella that contain osteocytes
- 4. Membrane around bone's outer surface
- 5. Membrane that lines the medullary cavity
- 7. Tiny canals in osteons
- 8. Center of diaphysis that stores marrow
- 10. Ends of long bones
- 14. Process of bone formation
- 15. Structures that connect bone to bone