Across
- 2. Loss of bone mass due to prolonged imbalance of osteoblasts and osteoclasts activity
- 5. Cells that remove bone (resorption)
- 8. Protect lungs and heart (chest cavity)
- 11. An external body part or natural prolongation that protrudes from an organisms body such as arms legs
- 12. connective tissue covering bone
- 14. Soft spot
- 15. where two or more bones meet allowing movement, stability, and structural support
Down
- 1. intervertebral disk between vertebrae
- 3. Air spaces within several cranial and facial bones
- 4. bone forming cells, active during growth and repair
- 6. Attach bone to bone in a synovial joint
- 7. Protect heart (breast bone)
- 9. a transparent, glassy, and structurally substances ,such as cartilage or pathological changes in tissue
- 10. cartilages forming cells that build a model of the future bone
- 13. a flexible but inelastic cord of strong fibrous tissue attaching a muscle to a bone