Skeletal Imbalances

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Across
  1. 4. A strong permanent ¨patch¨ at the fracture site.
  2. 6. Uric acid builds up in blood and disposited as crystals in joint tissues.
  3. 7. Bloodvessels are ruptured when a bone breaks, causing a blood filled swelling.
  4. 9. Fibrocartilage is replaced by one made of spongy bone.
  5. 11. Chronic inflammatory disorder of the cartilage in the joints
  6. 14. Inwards curvature of the lumbar vertabrae.
  7. 16. When a bone is pushed out its normal position in the joint cavity.
  8. 17. Disease of children in which the bone fails to calcify
  9. 19. Bone breaks into many fragments.
  10. 20. A bone-thinning disease.
Down
  1. 1. Connective tissue cells of various types form a mass of repair tissue.
  2. 2. Exposed bone in the joint hardens and extra bone tissue grows, restricts joint movement.
  3. 3. Bone breaks incompletely.
  4. 5. Chronic degenerative condition of the cartilage.
  5. 8. Excessive outwards curvature of the thoracic vertabrae.
  6. 10. Result of exceptional trauma that twists or smashes the bone.
  7. 12. Tendons and ligaments reinforcing a joint are damaged by excessive stretching or are pulled away from the bone.
  8. 13. Drying of vertebral discs and weakening of their ligaments. May also result from exceptional twisting force.
  9. 15. lateral curvature of the spine.
  10. 18. Abnormal tissue that clings to and erodes articular cartilage.