Spelling (2)

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 2. Of or relating to or consisting of muscle (8)
  2. 7. Of or relating to ___ (11)
  3. 8. Red liquid pumped around the body by the heart (5)
  4. 9. A cord or band of inelastic tissue connecting a muscle with its bony attachment (plural) (7)
  5. 10. A chamber of the heart that receives blood from an atrium and pumps it to the arteries (9)
  6. 12. Tough elastic tissue (9)
  7. 14. A blood vessel that carries blood from the heart to the body (plural) (8)
  8. 15. Tiny bits of protoplasm found in vertebrate blood (plural) (9)

Down

  1. 1. A fourth state of matter distinct from solid or liquid or gas and present in stars and fusion (6)
  2. 3. Inflammation of a joint or joints (9)
  3. 4. A dense fibrous membrane covering the surface of bones and serving as an attachment for tendons (10)
  4. 5. Any of the minute blood vessels connecting arterioles with venules (plural) (11)
  5. 6. A blood vessel that carries blood from the capillaries toward the heart (plural) (5)
  6. 11. A sheet or band of tough fibrous tissue connecting bones or cartilages or supporting muscles (plural) (9)
  7. 13. Gas in the air that we need to breathe (6)