The Skeletal System
Across
- 3. knee
- 6. chamber made by bone, normally filled with air
- 7. smaller bone in the lower part of the leg
- 9. the final segment of the vertebrae, the tailbone
- 11. largest and most superior of the three bones that form the hip bone
- 14. depressions and openings indicating where blood vessels and nerves run and penetrate the bone
- 15. spine, back
- 17. bone that holds up the head
- 19. small pouch containing synovial fluid
- 22. protect organs in the chest area
- 23. outside bone on the lower arm
- 24. inside bone on the lower arm
- 25. shoulder blade
- 26. mature bone cells
- 33. located in the upper part of the leg
- 34. the number of bones we have when we are adults
- 38. u-shaped bone in the neck which supports the tongue
- 40. located in the fingers and toes
- 43. includes rib, spine, skull
- 44. giant cells with fifty or more nuclei
- 45. wrists
- 46. center bone to the base of the hand
- 47. joins bone to bone may be found inside or outside the joint capsule
- 48. long flat bone located in the center of the chest
- 49. shock-absorbing cartilage pads in the knee
Down
- 1. freely movable joint
- 2. located in the jaw
- 4. forms a pivot joint with the atlas
- 5. located on top of the shoulder
- 8. thumb
- 10. nearest bone to the base of the hand
- 12. posterior inferior compart of the pelvis
- 13. upper part of the arm
- 16. larger bone in the lower part of the leg
- 18. stretches from the base of the skull to the coccyx
- 20. slightly movable joint
- 21. skull
- 26. cells responsible for the production of new cells
- 27. ankle
- 28. the amount of rib bones
- 29. furthest bone to the base of the hand
- 30. hip bone
- 31. includes arms, legs, pelvis
- 32. supporting connective tissue that contains specialized cells
- 35. the number of bones we have when we are born
- 36. immovable joint
- 37. five long bones in the feet and hands
- 39. loose connective tissue
- 41. triangular bone at the base of the spine that forms by fusing the sacral vertebrae
- 42. heel bone