SKELETAL SYSTEM: BONE AND CARTILAGE
Across
- 3. sponge bone in flat bone
- 7. form costal cartilages
- 9. highly compressible and great tensile strength
- 10. cube shaped
- 13. composed of a diaphysis and epiphyses
- 14. new bone continually deposited and resorbed.
- 16. the process of bone formation
- 17. lines the inner bone cavities
Down
- 1. cells made of cartilage tissue
- 2. contain compact and spongy bone
- 4. can be called shaft
- 5. cover diaphysis
- 6. consist of trabeculae filled with red or yellow marrow
- 8. firm tissue but is softer and much more flexible than bone.
- 11. bone-forming
- 12. bone-destroying
- 15. the structural unit of compact bone