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