Skeletal System Crossword!

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Across
  1. 2. Bone is broken completely, but ends do not penetrate the skin
  2. 7. Bone penetrates the skin; also known as an open fracture
  3. 9. A fracture in which the bone splinters, but the break is incomplete
  4. 10. Cells that work opposite of osteoblasts and are capable of resorbing and breaking down bone structure
  5. 12. Immature cells capable of differentiating (changing) into osteoblasts
  6. 13. vertebral column
  7. 14. How many bones are we born with?
  8. 15. A fracture in which the bone ends are forced into each other
  9. 16. have spaces between the trabeculae webbing are filled with bone marrow
  10. 17. Bone is crushed
  11. 18. How many bones do an adult body have?
Down
  1. 1. the formation of blood cellular components
  2. 3. Cells capable of forming bone by secreting osteoid (proteins such as collagen) that form a bone matrix, and eventually mineralized bone
  3. 4. made up of a dense spider web-like netting of bone called trabeculae
  4. 5. Fracture type which is a typical skull fracture
  5. 6. functions in hematopoiesis, and, in a healthy adult, produces more than 500 billion blood cells a day
  6. 8. Results from a twisting force
  7. 11. contains cells that resist force and that also respond to external stress to initiate bone remodeling
  8. 12. Once an osteoblast is completely surrounded by bone matrix, it stops secreting osteoid and becomes an osteocyte
  9. 19. 24 total of this