Across
- 3. These joints are found in the knee and elbow.
- 5. What bone makes up the middle/base of the skull?
- 7. The place where two or more bones meet?
- 9. What is the name of the knee cap?
- 14. What system performs vital functions like movement?
- 15. What are the bones that make up the wrist?
- 18. What protects the spinal cord?
- 19. What is the bone that makes up the upper arm bone?
- 20. What bone makes up the bridge of the nose?
- 21. The onset is generally insidious and until a critical mass of abnormal cells occurs, most people are without symptoms.
- 25. What is the top of the sternum called?
- 28. What bone makes up the upper jaw?
- 29. This type of bone marrow forms most of the blood cells in the body and helps destroy old blood cells.
- 30. What are the bones that make up the hand?
- 32. What makes up the skeletal system?
- 33. What are the ends of bones called?
- 35. How many different types of bones are there?
- 36. Where is the mandible located?
- 38. What is the name of the thinner bone in the lower leg?
- 39. What is the process by which bones are formed?
- 41. What is the bone that makes up the back of the skull?
- 44. This hard and dense tissue makes up the outer layer of most bones and the main shaft of long bones.
- 46. What is the bone that makes up the forehead?
- 49. This type of bone marrow resides in the central cavities of long bones.
- 50. This is made up of 12 pairs of bones that encase vital organs in the chest
- 51. What is the word for immovable joints found only in the skull?
Down
- 1. What is the bone that makes up your temples?
- 2. What is the vertebrae that the skull rests upon?
- 3. Which bone is the only one suspended by ligaments?
- 4. What is the meaning of the word orbit?
- 6. What makes up the shoulder blades?
- 8. Where is the cervical vertebrae?
- 10. What bone seperates the nostrils?
- 11. What is the word for the "soft spots" on a newborn before the sutures are formed?
- 12. These connect bones to muscles.
- 13. Which bone protects the brain?
- 16. What is the bone that makes up the top of the skull, seperated by a suture?
- 17. Overuse or injury of the tendons results in inflammation and pain.
- 22. The most common condition that affects bones is what?
- 23. What is the middle of the sternum called?
- 24. This is a disease in which the bones become fragile and prone to fracture.
- 26. The part of the bone where blood cells are made.
- 27. What is the purpose of the compact bone tissue?
- 31. What is the vertebrae that the skull rotates on?
- 34. What’s the smallest bone in the body?
- 37. What makes bones so strong?
- 40. What makes up the collar bone?
- 42. What bone is between the orbit?
- 43. This tissue is made up of smaller plates filled with red bone marrow.
- 45. What are the ankle bones called?
- 47. What is the name of the thicker bone in the lower leg (the shin)?
- 48. How many types of bone tissue are there?