Bones

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 2. Instrumentality that combines interrelated interacting artifacts designed to work as a coherent (6)
  2. 3. The point of connection between two bones or elements of a skeleton (plural) (6)
  3. 6. The fatty network of connective tissue that fills the cavities of ___ (10)
  4. 7. Rigid connective tissue that makes up the skeleton of vertebrates (plural) (5)
  5. 9. A cell that is specialized to conduct nerve impulses (plural) (7)
  6. 10. Long nerve fiber that conducts away from the cell body of the neuron (4)
  7. 11. The junction between two neurons or between a neuron and a muscle (7)

Down

  1. 1. A cellular structure that is postulated to exist in order to mediate between a chemical agent (plural) (9)
  2. 4. The hard structure that provides a frame for the body of an animal (8)
  3. 5. A sheet or band of tough fibrous tissue connecting bones or cartilages or supporting muscles (plural) (9)
  4. 8. A cord or band of inelastic tissue connecting a muscle with its bony attachment (plural) (7)