Skeletal System

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Across
  1. 2. Cartilage that covers epiphysis
  2. 5. One of central canal contents
  3. 6. Blood cell formation
  4. 10. Includes limbs and pelvic girdle
  5. 12. Skeletal system that contains cranium, thoracic cage and vertebra
  6. 14. Also known as the “growth plate”
  7. 17. Lining of medullary cavity
  8. 18. Mineral stored in bone
  9. 21. Type of bone formation from cartilage
  10. 23. Bone resorbing cell
  11. 28. Patella bone type
  12. 29. Fracture that exposes bone outside of skin
  13. 30. Marrow that stores fat
  14. 31. type of formation of flat bones i.e. the skull, clavicles, sternum bones
Down
  1. 1. extracellular matrix of blood
  2. 3. Branching plates in spongy bone
  3. 4. Hollow cavity in diaphysis
  4. 7. Only bone that does not articulate with any other bone
  5. 8. Chambers for osteocytes
  6. 9. Expanded end of a long bone
  7. 11. Vitamin D deficiency in children
  8. 13. Bone plates of spongy bone
  9. 15. Hormone to lower calcium
  10. 16. Bone formation
  11. 19. Allows head to rotate
  12. 20. Hormone to raise calcium
  13. 22. Shaft of a long bone
  14. 24. Weaking of the bone causing breaks
  15. 25. Outer bone covering
  16. 26. Mature bone cell
  17. 27. Bone forming cell