Diabetes

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 1. Feeling of pressure or worry (6)
  2. 5. Something that treats or prevents or alleviates the symptoms of disease (10)
  3. 6. Red liquid pumped around the body by the heart (5)
  4. 9. An essential structural component of living cells and source of energy for animals (plural) (13)
  5. 10. A material's opposition to the flow of electric current (10)
  6. 14. Hormone secreted by the isles of Langerhans in the pancreas (7)
  7. 15. The basic unit of length adopted under the Systeme International d'Unites (5)
  8. 16. A monosaccharide sugar that has several forms (7)

Down

  1. 2. Physical activity that keeps you fit (8)
  2. 3. Abnormally low blood sugar usually resulting from excessive insulin or a poor diet (12)
  3. 4. A hemoprotein composed of globin and heme that gives red blood cells their characteristic color (10)
  4. 7. Identifying the nature or cause of some phenomenon (9)
  5. 8. A large elongated exocrine gland located behind the stomach (8)
  6. 11. The activity of providing for or maintaining by supplying with money or necessities (7)
  7. 12. A relation of constraint of one entity by another (7)
  8. 13. A mechanical device that moves fluid or gas by pressure or suction (4)