Examine Your Health

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 3. Obstruction of blood flow in a ___ artery by a blood clot (8)
  2. 5. A sample of secretions and superficial cells of the uterine cervix and uterus (8)
  3. 8. Organ that pumps blood around the body (5)
  4. 10. A ___ in which ___ circulates (plural) (12)
  5. 11. Relating to or affecting the lungs (9)
  6. 12. To observe, check out, and look over carefully or inspect (7)
  7. 13. Pain in a muscle or group of muscles (7)
  8. 14. Any small spherical group of cells containing a cavity (8)
  9. 15. Animal tissue consisting predominantly of contractile cells (plural) (7)

Down

  1. 1. The fatty network of connective tissue that fills the cavities of bones (6)
  2. 2. The hard structure that provides a frame for the body of an animal (8)
  3. 3. Any of the minute blood vessels connecting arterioles with venules (9)
  4. 4. A muscular sac attached to the liver that stores bile until it is needed for digestion (11)
  5. 6. Tiny bits of protoplasm found in vertebrate blood (8)
  6. 7. The large trunk artery that carries blood from the left ventricle of the heart to branch arteries (5)
  7. 9. Located near the base of the neck (7)