Across
- 6. 26 small bones that make up your backbone
- 7. a disease in which joints become irritated or inflamed
- 11. a soft connective tissue that is found int he spaces of many bones
- 12. a condition in which the body's bones become weak and break easily
- 14. lower jaw bone
- 15. connective tissue that is more flexible than the bone
- 17. shaft of a long bone
- 18. a substitute for a diseased or missing body part
- 19. tailbone; forms the end of the spine
- 20. narrow opening in a bone
Down
- 1. your framework that is made up of all the bones in your body
- 2. thigh bone; largest bone in the body
- 3. number of facial bones (spell number)
- 4. an abnormal lateral curvature of the spine
- 5. a membrane that surrounds bone
- 8. ankle bones
- 9. typical number of bones in adult skeleton
- 10. the strong connective tissue that holds bones in joints together
- 13. a place in the body where 2 bones come together
- 16. ends of a long bone