Skeletal System
Across
- 2. part of bone that contains red marrow (two words together)
- 4. storage for fat cells (two words together)
- 6. protects spinal cord
- 12. forms extremeties including shoulder girdle, arms, legs, and pelvic girdle (two words together)
- 14. muscles attached to bones to help provide movement
- 16. weight-bearing bone of lower leg
- 18. inward curvature in lumbar region
- 19. torn ligaments at the joint
- 21. broken bone ends jammed into another bone
- 22. where two or more bones joined together
- 23. lateral curvature of spine
- 25. twisted fracture
- 27. compete break, no skin damage
- 28. bone breaks into two pieces or more
- 29. broken piece of skull bone moved inward
- 30. kneecap
- 33. air spaces in bones of skull
- 34. spherical structure that surrounds and protects the brain
- 36. connective tissue to hold long bones together at joints
- 38. crack or break in bone
- 39. consists of 206 bones for a human adult (two words together)
- 40. bone inflamattion
- 41. break at wrist
Down
- 1. rounded bowing of the back at thoracic area
- 3. inflammation of fluid-filled sacs around joints
- 5. produces red blood cells (two words together)
- 7. bone is forcibly displaced at joint
- 8. lower leg bone attached to proximal end of tibia
- 9. thigh bone
- 10. soft spots
- 11. happens when lacking calcium for long period of lifetime
- 13. membrane that lines medullarycanal and keeps yellow marrow in tact
- 15. incomplete break
- 17. forms the main trunk of the body (two words together)
- 20. outside "tough" membrane of bones
- 24. when bone breaks and opens skin
- 26. aka herniated or slipped disk (two words together)
- 31. bones of the extremities (arms and legs)(two words together)
- 32. surgical removal of protruding disk
- 35. inflammation of the joints
- 37. realigning the bone before casting