Across
- 5. name given to the ends of a long bone
- 6. the elbow is an example of this type of joint
- 7. thick and elastic tissue connecting muscle to bone
- 9. slick surface that covers the end of a bone at a joint
- 10. bone of the front-knee
- 13. most commonly broke bone
- 14. bone “eating”cells
- 18. fluid in the knee joint
- 21. largest of the long bones in the human skeleton
- 22. this cavity contain bone marrow
- 23. structures that connect bone to bone
- 24. the “hip bone”
- 25. long bone of the upper arm
- 26. I used these bones on the keyboard to type this crossword
Down
- 1. canal running perpendicular to the long axis of a long bone
- 2. type of bone made up of longitudinal Osteon formations
- 3. bones of the low back
- 4. most common form of arthritis
- 8. bone forming cells
- 11. the part of our skeleton that includes the skull and vertebral column
- 12. the outer coating of a bone
- 15. anatomical term for the shoulder blade
- 16. a bone of the skull that might be injured in a fall backwards
- 17. Hormone released as a result of decreasing blood calcium level(acronym)
- 19. commonly injured connective tissue in the back of the knee(acronym)
- 20. immovable joints between bones of the skull