Across
- 4. long bone of the upper arm
- 5. thick and elastic tissue connecting muscle to bone
- 6. immovable joints between bones of the skull
- 8. slick surface that covers the end of a bone at a joint
- 10. commonly injured connective tissue in the back of the knee(acronym)
- 12. Hormone released as a result of decreasing blood calcium level(acronym)
- 13. name given to the ends of a long bone
- 15. bone of the front-knee
- 16. anatomical term for the shoulder blade
- 17. canal running perpendicular to the long axis of a long bone
- 18. a bone of the skull that might be injured in a fall backwards
- 22. most common form of arthritis
- 23. most commonly broke bone
- 24. this cavity contain bone marrow
- 25. largest of the long bones in the human skeleton
Down
- 1. bones of the low back
- 2. the outer coating of a bone
- 3. bone forming cells
- 7. structures that connect bone to bone
- 9. bone “eating”cells
- 10. the part of our skeleton that includes the skull and vertebral column
- 11. type of bone made up of longitudinal Osteon formations
- 14. fluid in the knee joint
- 19. the “hip bone”
- 20. I used these bones on the keyboard to type this crossword
- 21. the elbow is an example of this type of joint