Across
- 5. The organs system that includes the bones, and the ligaments and cartilages that hold them together
- 7. Have roughly equal lengths and widths
- 8. The spongy, red-colored tissue found inside certain bones that is responsible for producing all blood cells
- 10. Fibrous joints between the bones of the skull are immovable
- 12. Process of replacing old bone tissue with new bone tissue
- 14. Union of two or more bones;articulation
- 16. Shaft of a long bone
- 17. Long narrow crack;groove or cleft in a surface or between parts of a organ
- 18. The dense, hard outer layer of bone tissue that provides strength and structure to the skeleton
- 19. Sac-like, fluid-filled cushioning structure, lined with synovial membrane near a joint
- 22. Allows biatal movement in both planes
- 23. Hollow air spaces in the bones of the skull around the nose
- 24. A bone with long longitudinal axis and expanded ends
- 25. Bones that are expanded into broad,flat plates
- 26. Freely Movable Joint
- 27. Two or more bones joint by dense connective tisue
- 28. The portion of the skeleton that supports and protects the organs of the head, neck, and trunk
Down
- 1. Rotational movements around a single axis
- 2. Localized collection of blood that has pooled outside of the blood vessels/truma
- 3. Bone that consists of bars and plates separated by irregular spaces; cancellous bone
- 4. Dense connective tissue covering the surface of a bone
- 6. Category of bones that come in a variety of shapes, most often connected to other bones
- 9. Either end of a long bone
- 11. Functional joints between bones, they bind parts of the skeletal system
- 13. Cell that breaks down bone matrix
- 15. Bone-forming cells
- 20. Type of slightly movable joints where bones are connected by cartilage or ligaments
- 21. Mature bone-cells derived from osteoblasts, that reside within the bone matrix in tiny cavities called "Lacunae"