The Skeletal System

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Across
  1. 3. knee
  2. 6. chamber made by bone, normally filled with air
  3. 7. smaller bone in the lower part of the leg
  4. 9. the final segment of the vertebrae, the tailbone
  5. 11. largest and most superior of the three bones that form the hip bone
  6. 14. depressions and openings indicating where blood vessels and nerves run and penetrate the bone
  7. 15. spine, back
  8. 17. bone that holds up the head
  9. 19. small pouch containing synovial fluid
  10. 22. protect organs in the chest area
  11. 23. outside bone on the lower arm
  12. 24. inside bone on the lower arm
  13. 25. shoulder blade
  14. 26. mature bone cells
  15. 33. located in the upper part of the leg
  16. 34. the number of bones we have when we are adults
  17. 38. u-shaped bone in the neck which supports the tongue
  18. 40. located in the fingers and toes
  19. 43. includes rib, spine, skull
  20. 44. giant cells with fifty or more nuclei
  21. 45. wrists
  22. 46. center bone to the base of the hand
  23. 47. joins bone to bone may be found inside or outside the joint capsule
  24. 48. long flat bone located in the center of the chest
  25. 49. shock-absorbing cartilage pads in the knee
Down
  1. 1. freely movable joint
  2. 2. located in the jaw
  3. 4. forms a pivot joint with the atlas
  4. 5. located on top of the shoulder
  5. 8. thumb
  6. 10. nearest bone to the base of the hand
  7. 12. posterior inferior compart of the pelvis
  8. 13. upper part of the arm
  9. 16. larger bone in the lower part of the leg
  10. 18. stretches from the base of the skull to the coccyx
  11. 20. slightly movable joint
  12. 21. skull
  13. 26. cells responsible for the production of new cells
  14. 27. ankle
  15. 28. the amount of rib bones
  16. 29. furthest bone to the base of the hand
  17. 30. hip bone
  18. 31. includes arms, legs, pelvis
  19. 32. supporting connective tissue that contains specialized cells
  20. 35. the number of bones we have when we are born
  21. 36. immovable joint
  22. 37. five long bones in the feet and hands
  23. 39. loose connective tissue
  24. 41. triangular bone at the base of the spine that forms by fusing the sacral vertebrae
  25. 42. heel bone