Skeletal system
Across
- 2. triglyceride storage tissue
- 4. a sign that the bone has stopped growing in length
- 9. two bone surfaces that come together
- 11. contains bones blood vessels and nerve fibers
- 13. space within the shaft of a bone that contains red or yellow bone marrow
- 15. thin layer of hyaline cartilage covering the ends of bones where they form a joint
- 17. made in liver and bone tissues
- 19. cells that form new bones
- 20. the tough membrane that surrounds the bone surface wherever cartilage is not present
Down
- 1. responsible for growth spurt
- 3. distal and proximal ends of bones
- 5. thin layer of membrane or plate of tissue in bone
- 6. shaft of bone
- 7. membrane lining the medullary cavity
- 8. the region that contains the growth plate
- 10. habitat for bone cells
- 12. found in the diaphysis
- 14. break in bone
- 16. protects the most important organs from injury
- 18. hemopoiesis tissue