The Skeletal System
Across
- 3. Classification of joints which can be immovable, slightly movable or freely movable
- 5. Type of bone that makes up the kneecap
- 10. Bone infection
- 11. Structural component of compact bone
- 14. Rickets
- 16. Classification of joints which can be fibrous, cartilaginous or synovial
- 17. Cells which can move and build new bone matrix
- 19. Vascular covering of most bones
- 21. Wider end of the bone
Down
- 1. Spongy bone
- 2. Long axis or shaft of the bone
- 4. Cells which form from monocytes and break down bone
- 6. Skeleton which includes the skull, vertebral column and ribs
- 7. Bones with broad surfaces for muscle attachment such as the sternum and ribs
- 8. Group of diseases where bone reabsorption is greater than bone deposition
- 9. Connect muscle to bone
- 12. Bones a shaft and two ends
- 13. Where fats are stored in the bone
- 15. Number of thoracic bones
- 18. Type of joint which has a fluid filled cavity
- 19. Type of cell found in synovial fluid to clean up tissue debris
- 20. Upper arm bone