Diabetes Awareness

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 3. Abnormally low blood sugar usually resulting from excessive insulin or a poor diet (12)
  2. 5. Hormone secreted by the isles of Langerhans in the pancreas (7)
  3. 6. A state of deep and often prolonged unconsciousness (4)
  4. 7. The learned profession that is mastered by graduate training in a ___ school and that is (8)
  5. 9. A physiological need for food (6)
  6. 11. A unit of heat equal to the amount of heat required to raise the temperature of one kilogram (7)
  7. 13. Red liquid pumped around the body by the heart (5)
  8. 15. To lose interest or become bored with something or somebody (5)
  9. 16. The vertical force exerted by a mass as a result of gravity (6)

Down

  1. 1. Liquid excretory product (5)
  2. 2. Glucose in the ___ (10)
  3. 4. The act of putting a liquid into the body by means of a syringe (9)
  4. 8. Physical activity that keeps you fit (8)
  5. 10. The leaf of a conifer (6)
  6. 12. The power to do work or make things move (6)
  7. 14. The food and drink a person usually has (4)