Health Words

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 5. A condition promoting sanitary practices (7)
  2. 7. Tiniest unit of living things (plural) (5)
  3. 9. Of or relating to ___ (11)
  4. 10. The point of connection between two bones or elements of a skeleton (plural) (6)
  5. 11. Any substance that promotes ___ (9)
  6. 12. Causing or fraught with or showing anxiety (7)
  7. 13. A sheet or band of tough fibrous tissue connecting bones or cartilages or supporting muscles (plural) (9)
  8. 15. Either of two saclike respiratory organs in the chest of vertebrates (plural) (5)

Down

  1. 1. The biological process whereby genetic factors are transmitted from one generation to the next (8)
  2. 2. Any of the minute blood vessels connecting arterioles with venules (plural) (11)
  3. 3. The natural world around us (11)
  4. 4. A large elongated exocrine gland located behind the stomach (8)
  5. 5. The secretion of an endocrine gland that is transmitted by the blood to the tissue on which it has (plural) (8)
  6. 6. A blood vessel that carries blood from the heart to the body (plural) (8)
  7. 8. A sample of matter in which substances in different phases are in equilibrium (plural) (7)
  8. 14. Any of various organs that synthesize substances needed by the body and release it through ducts (plural) (6)