Vocabulary cross-word puzzle
Across
- 4. includes the limbs and girdles
- 5. a lightweight, porous bone tissue with a sponge-like lattice structure
- 8. a large, multinucleated cell
- 9. soft tissue inside bones that produces blood cells
- 12. flexible fibrous connective tissue which connects two bones
- 13. the end part of a long bone
- 15. an immovably fixed joint between bones
- 18. bone cells that sense and respond to mechanical stress,
- 19. location where two or more bones meet
- 21. the process by which bone tissue is formed
- 22. cylindrical, functional units of bone.
Down
- 1. break in a bone
- 2. a freely movable joint that allows for a wide range of motion
- 3. the hard, dense outer layer of bones that provides strength and protection
- 6. small, fluid-filled sac that acts as a cushion between a bone and other moving parts
- 7. a C-shaped piece of fibrocartilage in the knee
- 10. the central part of the skeleton
- 11. the shaft or central part of a long bone.
- 14. a thick, clear liquid that lubricates and cushions the joints
- 16. a slightly movable joint that connects bones using cartilage
- 17. a cell that secretes the matrix for bone formation.
- 20. a dense layer of vascular connective tissue