Across
- 4. A narrow ridge of bone; usually prominent
- 6. A bone that pertains to tear making
- 8. A bone that is dense and looks smooth and hemogeneous
- 11. The ends of the long bone
- 14. Mature bone cells
- 16. Hundreds of connective tissue fibers
- 18. Broken bone ends are forced into each other
- 19. Makes up most of the bone's length
- 20. Tiny cavitites within the matrix
Down
- 1. A canal which allows the optic nerve to pass to the eye
- 2. A bone that forms the forehead
- 3. A bone that is generally cube-shaped
- 5. A bone that is composed of small needlelike pieces
- 7. Cartilage that covers the external surface of compact bone
- 9. Fibrous connective tissue membrane
- 10. A formation, the first stage in the healing of a bone fracture
- 12. A plate that causes lengthwise growing of the bones
- 13. A bone that lies inferior to the parietal bones
- 15. Tiny canals, transportation system that connects all the bone cells to the nutrient supply
- 17. Bone breaks incompletly, much in way a green twig breaks