Skeletal System
Across
- 1. Recommended immediate treatment for bone, joint, and muscle injuries. Rest, Ice, Compression, Elevation
- 4. Injury to the joint caused by any sudden or unusual motion
- 7. Movement of an extremity away from the midline
- 11. A mature bone cell
- 12. Most of the joints in our body are of this type
- 14. Increasing the angle between two bones, which results in a straightening motion
- 15. Bone of the palmar surface of the hand
- 17. Simplest type of fracture in which the bone is partly bent, but never completely separates
- 18. Immovable joints connected by tough, fibrous connective tissue
Down
- 2. Fracture in which the broken bone ends pierce and protrude through the skin
- 3. A bone of the axial skeleton to which the tongue is attached
- 5. Shaft of a typical long bone
- 6. Kneecap, found in front of the knee joint
- 8. The lower jaw, the only movable bone in the face
- 9. The breastbone
- 10. Bone cells that secrete enzymes that digest bony material
- 13. Bone cells that deposit new bone
- 16. A tough fibrous tissue that covers the outside of bone