Skeletal Terms
Across
- 3. Large, multinucleated cells
- 4. Enlarged connective tissue that further differentiates into bone-forming cells
- 5. Tightly packed tissue that does not have the trabeculae
- 7. A bone is enclosed by a tough, vascular covering of dense connective tissue
- 8. A bone that articulates(forms of joint) with another bone
- 9. Replacement of cartilage by bone
- 11. Contact bone in the diaphysis of a long bone, forms a tube with a hollow chamber
- 12. Any of the small canals through which the blood vessel ramify in bone
Down
- 1. The outer surface of an articulating portion of the epiphysis is coated with a layer of hyaline cartilage
- 2. branching bony plates
- 4. bone cells that exchange substances with nearby cells
- 6. Thin layers of compact bone on their surface that contains the trabeculae
- 10. Shaft of the bone