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Chapter 5 - The Skeletal System
Across
1. Band of regular fibrous tissue that connects bones.
3. The end of a long bone, attached to the shaft.
4. Cuplike cavity on lateral surface of the hip bone that receives the femur.
6. The bones of the skull, vertebral column, thorax, and sternum.
8. The second cervical vertebra; has a vertical projection called the dens around which the atlas rotates
9. Bone-forming cells.
11. Increased softening of the bone resulting from a gradual decrease in rate of bone formation.
13. Discs of fibrocartilage between vertebrae.
14. The disease in which uric acid accumulates in the blood and may be deposited as needle-shaped crystals in the soft tissues of joints is called __________.
15. Large cells that resorb or break down bone matrix.
16. Freely movable joint.
17. The first cervical vertebra; articulates with the occipital bone of the skull and the second cervical vertebra.
Down
1. A small space, cavity, or depression; _?_ in bone or cartilage are occupied by cells.
2. Bones joined by fibrous tissue; no joint cavity is present.
5. Blood cell formation is called __________.
7. Double-layered connective tissue that covers and nourishes the bone.
10. Elongated shaft of a long bone.
12. The disease in children whose diets lack calcium or vitamin D, where the bones fail to calcify, is called ________.