Unit 7 & 8 Axial and Appendicular Skeleton

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Across
  1. 4. Multinucleated cells that break down the calcified matrix & absorbs bone tissue during growth
  2. 5. Composed of osteocytes and extracellular metric; get nutrients from substances diffusing into the canaliculi that lead to the surfaces of the thin, body plates
  3. 6. Branching bony plates
  4. 9. Shaft of the bone
  5. 11. Articulates with another bone
  6. 12. Tough, vascular covering of dense connective tissue that encloses the bone
  7. 13. Tube with a hollow chamber into a compact bone in the diaphysis
Down
  1. 1. Hyaline cartilage that lines the outer surface of the articulating portion of the epiphysis
  2. 2. Situated or occurring with cartilage
  3. 3. Mesenchymal cells that are part of the connective tissue that further differentiate into bone-forming cells
  4. 7. Osteocytes and layers of extracellular matrix, 'lamellae' are densely clustered around a central canal
  5. 8. Bone cells/tiny, bony chambers called lacunae
  6. 10. Also know as the osteon; form substance of compact bone