skeletal puzzle

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Across
  1. 3. helps fingers balance
  2. 5. the longest, heaviest, and strongest bone in the human body.
  3. 8. maintaining pharynx and trachea support
  4. 9. a sigmoid-shaped long bone with a convex surface
  5. 10. to bear weight with the medial aspect of the tibia bearing the majority of the weight load.
  6. 12. provide mobility and stability to the head
  7. 16. reduces the density of bone and allows the ends of long bones to compress as the result of stresses applied to the bone
  8. 17. functions to protect the knee joint
  9. 18. The skull or known as the
  10. 20. house and protect the sense organs of smell, sight, and taste
  11. 23. comprised of a proximal base, a shaft and a distal head.
  12. 25. acts as the stabilising bone
  13. 26. forms the pelvis by joining with the hip bones
  14. 27. helps you move your head side to side
  15. 28. supports the musculature and structures of the face and forms a protective cavity for the brain.
Down
  1. 1. mostly located in the appendicular skeleton and include bones in the lower limbs
  2. 2. forms the posterolateral portion of the hip bone
  3. 4. low back
  4. 6. contribute to the movements of the hand and elbow, and therefore the function of the upper limb.
  5. 7. forms the hard external layer of all bones and surrounds the medullary cavity, or bone marrow.
  6. 11. known as the shoulder blade
  7. 13. protects the organs in the thoracic cavity
  8. 14. flat at the back of the hand and bowed on the palmar side
  9. 15. protect internal organs such as the brain, heart, and pelvic organs.
  10. 16. a long, flat, bony plate that forms the most anterior section of the rib cage.
  11. 19. to articulate with the ulna and humerus at the elbow to provide supination and pronation.
  12. 20. to combine with the tibia and provide stability to the ankle joint.
  13. 21. allows the wrist to move.
  14. 22. the largest and most superior of the three bones that join to form the hipbone or os coxa.
  15. 24. In the human ankle there are seven