Parts of the body

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Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 3. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium (3)
  2. 5. The opening through which food is taken in and vocalizations emerge (5)
  3. 6. Large and complicated reddish-brown glandular organ located in the upper right portion of (5)
  4. 8. The point of connection between two bones or elements of a skeleton (plural) (6)
  5. 9. A cord or band of inelastic tissue connecting a muscle with its bony attachment (plural) (7)
  6. 10. The structure of the vertebrate skeleton supporting the lower limbs in humans and the hind limbs (6)
  7. 12. Any of the minute blood vessels connecting arterioles with venules (plural) (11)
  8. 14. A blood vessel that carries blood from the heart to the body (6)
  9. 15. The part of an organism that connects the head to the rest of the body (4)

Down

  1. 1. That part of the central nervous system that includes all the higher nervous centers (5)
  2. 2. A blood vessel that carries blood from the capillaries toward the heart (4)
  3. 4. Organ that pumps blood around the body (5)
  4. 5. Animal tissue consisting predominantly of contractile cells (plural) (7)
  5. 7. Membranous tube with cartilaginous rings that conveys inhaled air from the larynx to the bronchi (8)
  6. 11. The bony skeleton of the head of vertebrates (5)
  7. 13. The organ of sight (plural) (4)