SKELETAL CROSSWORD PUZZLE

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Across
  1. 1. largest and strongest bone of the face
  2. 10. cheekbones
  3. 11. C1- C7
  4. 12. skull, ribs, sternum, scapula
  5. 13. Bone- destroying cells
  6. 14. limbs and girdles
  7. 15. breaks into three or more pieces
  8. 17. L1- L5
  9. 18. dense and appears homogenous
  10. 20. “tailbone” 3-4 fused bones
  11. 22. Protects the heart and lungs
  12. 23. made of small needle-like pieces and bone space greater surface area than compact bone
  13. 24. 12 pairs
  14. 29. Shaft of bone; composed of compact bone
  15. 30. Ends of the bone; mostly of spongy bone
  16. 31. don’t connect to the sternum they connect to rib 7
  17. 33. The wrist and the ankle
  18. 34. completely crushed bone
  19. 35. broken bone, penetrates the skin
  20. 36. Manubrium,Body, Xiphoid process
  21. 37. pressed inward, into each other
Down
  1. 2. Covers the epiphysis and reduces friction at the joints (smoothest material of our body)
  2. 3. T1- T12
  3. 4. 5 fused bones
  4. 5. They come out of spine like all of them but they aren’t attached to anything
  5. 6. forms upper jaw
  6. 7. Helps maintain balance and weight distribution
  7. 8. Outside covering of the diaphysis
  8. 9. Contains yellow marrow (Mostly fat) in adults. Contains red marrow (for blood cell formation) in infants
  9. 16. Mature Bone cells
  10. 19. finger sized
  11. 21. bones in limbs, hand/ feet bones
  12. 22. they connect to the spine to your sternum
  13. 25. does not penetrate the skin
  14. 26. form the longitudinal axis of the body
  15. 27. butterfly shaped
  16. 28. Bone- forming cells
  17. 32. vertebrae and sacrum