Across
- 2. disease causing inflammation or swelling of one or more joints
- 3. opening canal in the center of an osteon
- 5. upper jawbone
- 6. bone growth
- 7. strong and flexible connective tissue
- 8. moveable base for the tongue
- 9. synovial joint that allows motion in only one plane
- 10. shaft composed of compact bone
- 12. abnormal lateral curvature
- 13. cavities containing osteocytes
- 15. wrist bones
- 19. the name of the two ribs not attached to the sternum
- 20. narrow, slit-like opening
- 22. allows you to nod “yes”
- 24. bone-forming cells
- 26. bones that are cube-shaped
- 30. moveable jawbone
- 31. abnormal posterior curvature
- 32. bone that acts as a brace to hold the arm away from the top of the thorax
- 33. finger bones
- 36. heaviest and strongest bone in the body
- 37. concave with five vertebrae
- 38. fracture due to being crushed
Down
- 1. the top bone of a sternum
- 4. bone marking that grows out from the bone surface
- 5. the name of the region containing the wrist and hand
- 8. first stage of bone repair
- 11. the girdle formed by two coxal bones and the sacrum
- 14. a shallow cavity that is loosely reinforced
- 16. sharp, slender, pointed projection
- 17. anterior bone of the eye socket, also the smallest bone of the skull
- 18. cavity containing yellow marrow in adults
- 21. the “tailbone”
- 23. fibrous joints that connect adult bones
- 24. the most posterior cranial bone
- 25. small needle-like pieces of bone
- 27. fracture due to bending
- 28. thin and sticklike bone, medial to the tibia
- 29. convex with twelve vertebrae
- 34. bone with a rounded proximal end that fits into the glenoid cavity
- 35. canal perpendicular to the central canal