Circulatory & Lymphatic System

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 1. Red liquid pumped around the body by the heart (5)
  2. 5. Any of the minute blood vessels connecting arterioles with venules (plural) (11)
  3. 10. Tiny bits of protoplasm found in vertebrate blood (plural) (9)
  4. 11. A thin coagulable fluid containing white blood cells and chyle (5)
  5. 13. Either of two bean-shaped excretory organs that filter wastes from the blood and excrete them (plural) (7)
  6. 14. Either of two saclike respiratory organs in the chest of vertebrates (plural) (5)

Down

  1. 2. An agranulocytic leukocyte that normally makes up a quarter of the white blood cell count but (plural) (11)
  2. 3. A blood vessel that carries blood from the heart to the body (plural) (8)
  3. 4. A hemoprotein composed of globin and heme that gives red blood cells their characteristic color (10)
  4. 6. A fourth state of matter distinct from solid or liquid or gas and present in stars and fusion (6)
  5. 7. Any chamber that is connected to other chambers or passageways (6)
  6. 8. A lymphocyte derived from bone marrow that provides humoral immunity (plural) (6)
  7. 9. A blood vessel that carries blood from the capillaries toward the heart (plural) (5)
  8. 12. Organ that pumps blood around the body (5)