Skeletal System
Across
- 4. connect bone to bone
- 5. mid/upper back
- 6. low back
- 8. fancy name for joint, means where things meet
- 9. a ___ disc means "slipped disc"
- 10. vertebrae protect our ___ ___
- 12. broken bone
- 13. breastbone
- 16. a weakening of the bone, it becomes holey and easier to fracture, often seen in older people
- 19. wrist bones
- 21. very top vertebra, C1
- 22. forearm bone on the thumb side
- 23. large triangle shaped bone made of fused vertebrae connecting you spine to your pelvis
Down
- 1. large shin bone
- 2. smooth white material, not as hard as bone, found at ends of bones and connecting ribs to sternum, in ears and nose
- 3. tail bone
- 7. foot bones
- 8. this portion of the skeleton is made of the limbs
- 11. neck area
- 12. thigh bone
- 14. connect muscle to bone
- 15. ribs
- 17. membrane that covers the bone, literally means surrounds bone
- 18. this portion of the skeleton protects the tissues underneath
- 20. the over stretching of a ligament
- 24. give the spine strength and flexibility