My Endocrine System

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 6. One of usually two organs that produce ova and secrete estrogen and progesterone (5)
  2. 7. An illness that harms the body (7)
  3. 9. Any of the minute blood vessels connecting arterioles with venules (9)
  4. 12. A basal part of the diencephalon governing autonomic nervous system (12)
  5. 15. Located near the base of the neck (7)
  6. 16. A sample of matter in which substances in different phases are in equilibrium (plural) (7)

Down

  1. 1. Tiniest unit of living things (plural) (5)
  2. 2. Red liquid pumped around the body by the heart (5)
  3. 3. Lower or hindmost part of the brain (7)
  4. 4. The process in which part of the output of a system is returned to its input in order to regulate (8)
  5. 5. A large elongated exocrine gland located behind the stomach (8)
  6. 8. The secretion of an ___ gland that is transmitted by the blood to the tissue on which it has (9)
  7. 10. The master gland of the endocrine system (9)
  8. 11. A ductless glandular organ at the base of the neck that produces lymphocytes and aids in producing (6)
  9. 13. The secretion of an endocrine gland that is transmitted by the blood to the tissue on which it has (plural) (8)
  10. 14. Any of various organs that synthesize substances needed by the body and release it through ducts (plural) (6)