Skeletal System

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Across
  1. 3. These joints are found in the knee and elbow.
  2. 5. What bone makes up the middle/base of the skull?
  3. 7. The place where two or more bones meet?
  4. 9. What is the name of the knee cap?
  5. 14. What system performs vital functions like movement?
  6. 15. What are the bones that make up the wrist?
  7. 18. What protects the spinal cord?
  8. 19. What is the bone that makes up the upper arm bone?
  9. 20. What bone makes up the bridge of the nose?
  10. 21. The onset is generally insidious and until a critical mass of abnormal cells occurs, most people are without symptoms.
  11. 25. What is the top of the sternum called?
  12. 28. What bone makes up the upper jaw?
  13. 29. This type of bone marrow forms most of the blood cells in the body and helps destroy old blood cells.
  14. 30. What are the bones that make up the hand?
  15. 32. What makes up the skeletal system?
  16. 33. What are the ends of bones called?
  17. 35. How many different types of bones are there?
  18. 36. Where is the mandible located?
  19. 38. What is the name of the thinner bone in the lower leg?
  20. 39. What is the process by which bones are formed?
  21. 41. What is the bone that makes up the back of the skull?
  22. 44. This hard and dense tissue makes up the outer layer of most bones and the main shaft of long bones.
  23. 46. What is the bone that makes up the forehead?
  24. 49. This type of bone marrow resides in the central cavities of long bones.
  25. 50. This is made up of 12 pairs of bones that encase vital organs in the chest
  26. 51. What is the word for immovable joints found only in the skull?
Down
  1. 1. What is the bone that makes up your temples?
  2. 2. What is the vertebrae that the skull rests upon?
  3. 3. Which bone is the only one suspended by ligaments?
  4. 4. What is the meaning of the word orbit?
  5. 6. What makes up the shoulder blades?
  6. 8. Where is the cervical vertebrae?
  7. 10. What bone seperates the nostrils?
  8. 11. What is the word for the "soft spots" on a newborn before the sutures are formed?
  9. 12. These connect bones to muscles.
  10. 13. Which bone protects the brain?
  11. 16. What is the bone that makes up the top of the skull, seperated by a suture?
  12. 17. Overuse or injury of the tendons results in inflammation and pain.
  13. 22. The most common condition that affects bones is what?
  14. 23. What is the middle of the sternum called?
  15. 24. This is a disease in which the bones become fragile and prone to fracture.
  16. 26. The part of the bone where blood cells are made.
  17. 27. What is the purpose of the compact bone tissue?
  18. 31. What is the vertebrae that the skull rotates on?
  19. 34. What’s the smallest bone in the body?
  20. 37. What makes bones so strong?
  21. 40. What makes up the collar bone?
  22. 42. What bone is between the orbit?
  23. 43. This tissue is made up of smaller plates filled with red bone marrow.
  24. 45. What are the ankle bones called?
  25. 47. What is the name of the thicker bone in the lower leg (the shin)?
  26. 48. How many types of bone tissue are there?