Across
- 3. Rounded passageway for blood vessels and/or nerves
- 7. a shallow depression
- 8. A meshwork of supporting bundles of fibers, oriented along stress lines and is crossed braced.
- 9. Curved joint surfaces
- 11. Bone is 2/3_____phosphate
- 12. Region of a long bone between the end and the shaft
- 14. The head of a long bone (Articulation, have joint surfaces)
- 16. A cell that produces the fibers and matrix of the bone
- 18. Part of a bone that forms an angle with the rest of the structure
- 19. Bone marrow that stores fats as an energy reserve
- 20. Large with a rough projection
- 23. Projection or bump
- 24. Bone marrow that forms red blood cells.
- 25. The shaft of the long bone
Down
- 1. Dense bone that contains parallel osteon
- 2. Bones that are box-like in appearance, ex. Carpal bones and Tarsal bones
- 4. A cell that dissolves the fibers and matrix of the bone.
- 5. Mature bone cells.
- 6. The breakdown of the mineral matrix of bone
- 10. Microscopic passageways between cells, permits diffusion of nutrients and wastes
- 13. Bone that is small, round and flat, found near joints of the knee and feet.
- 15. a narrow groove
- 17. Bones that are small, flat, irregular shaped, in between the flat bones of the skull
- 21. Bone that consists of an open network of struts and plates
- 22. Bones that are long and slender have a shaft with two ends that are wider than the shaft, ex. humerus