Skeletal System Articulations
Across
- 6. Occurs where bones are held together by dense regular (fibrous) connective tissue
- 7. Another name for a joint.
- 8. joint
- 9. bone
- 12. This is the joint between each bony rib and its costal cartilage.
- 14. wo opposing articular surfaces slide past each other in almost any direction.
- 15. hese have distinct, interlocking, irregular edges that increase strength and decrease fractures at the articulations
Down
- 1. An immobile joint
- 2. "peg in a socket"
- 3. The place of contact between bones, between bone and cartilage, or between bones and teeth.
- 4. has a fluid-filled joint cavity that separates the articulating surfaces of the bones.
- 5. muscle
- 10. slightly mobile joint.
- 11. has no joint cavity and occurs where bones are joined by cavity
- 13. A freely mobile joint