Muscular System

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 5. Of or relating to the heart (7)
  2. 7. A sheet or band of tough fibrous tissue connecting bones or cartilages or supporting muscles (plural) (9)
  3. 10. Having a surface free from roughness or bumps or ridges or irregularities (6)
  4. 11. Of or relating to or forming or attached to a ___ (8)
  5. 13. One of the supports for a piece of furniture (3)
  6. 14. The muscles of the ___ (plural) (10)
  7. 15. The structure of the vertebrate skeleton supporting the lower limbs in humans and the hind limbs (6)

Down

  1. 1. Cranial nerve that supplies ___ muscles (6)
  2. 2. The part of an organism that connects the head to the rest of the body (4)
  3. 3. The point of connection between two bones or elements of a skeleton (5)
  4. 4. Any skeletal muscle having three origins (7)
  5. 6. One of the tendons at the back of the knee (plural) (10)
  6. 8. A ball-and-socket joint between the head of the humerus and a cavity of the scapula (8)
  7. 9. A cord or band of inelastic tissue connecting a muscle with its bony attachment (plural) (7)
  8. 12. Any skeletal muscle having two origins (6)