Across
- 1. A type of bone consisting of numerous repeating lamellar units
- 5. A bone splinter, but the break is incomplete.
- 9. Layers of calcified matrix.
- 11. Red, gelatinous substance composed of red and white blood cells.
- 13. Remodeling, repairing, and dissolving of the bones.
- 16. Smooth, slippery, and porous articulating surface in freely movable joints.
- 17. The shaft of a long bone.
- 19. The end of a long bone.
- 20. interwoven beams of bone in the epiphyses of long bones.
- 22. Cells of epiphyseal plates initiate bone formation.
- 23. Fatty connective tissue that does not produce blood cells.
- 25. Cavity of the diaphysis which contains marrow.
Down
- 2. A fracture in which the bone is crushed.
- 3. Hormone secreted by the parafollicular C cells of the thyroid.
- 4. A type of bone that has two heads and a shaft. Consists of compact and spongy bone.
- 6. A type of spongy bone that are covered with a thin layer of compact bones, with a complex shape.
- 7. Immature bone cells.
- 8. "Residences" of osteocytes.
- 10. Principal artery and major supplier of oxygen and nutrients to the shaft or the body of a bone.
- 12. Fracture in which there is a open wound near the site of the broken bone.
- 14. Mature bone cells.
- 15. Fracture of the bone in which no tissues around the bone is damaged.
- 18. Fracture of the bone resulting from twisting forces.
- 21. Nonliving, structural part of bone.
- 24. Fibrous, cellular, and highly sensitive life support sheath for bone.
