Health Vocabulary

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Across
  1. 1. Motor function as a result of brain damage
  2. 3. Strong cords of tissue that connect bones at the joints, holds the bones in place
  3. 6. Located in your stomach and intestines; your digestive system is an example
  4. 9. Found in the walls of your heart; pumps blood in your entire body
  5. 11. Tough, flexible tissue; acts as a cushion between bones at a joint
  6. 13. Break in a bone
  7. 14. Limited rotation (side to side); neck and head
  8. 15. Enables bones to slide over one another; wrist and ankles
  9. 16. Curve of a spine
  10. 17. Provide framework to the body
  11. 18. Swelling and stiffness of joints
  12. 21. Moves only in one direction; elbows and knees
Down
  1. 2. Allows you to move; attached to bones; makes up about 40% of your body weight
  2. 4. Bone pushed out of a joint
  3. 5. Inherited disorder, weakening of skeletal muscles
  4. 7. Moves in all directions; hips and shoulders
  5. 8. Treatment for a strained/pulled muscle
  6. 10. Bones become brittle and porous
  7. 12. Bacterial infection of the bone
  8. 19. Attach the muscles to the bones
  9. 20. Stretching or tearing of a ligament