EXTRA CREDIT: Your Excretory, Endocrine, and Reproductive Sytems

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 2. Concluding state of pregnancy (5)
  2. 4. A large elongated exocrine gland located behind the stomach (8)
  3. 9. The monthly discharge of blood from the uterus of nonpregnant women from puberty to menopause (12)
  4. 12. An unborn or unhatched vertebrate in the later stages of development showing the main recognizable (5)
  5. 14. Membranous duct connecting the fetus with the placenta (13)
  6. 15. A hollow muscular organ in the pelvic cavity of females (6)
  7. 16. The organ that bears the ovules of a flower (plural) (7)

Down

  1. 1. A basal part of the diencephalon governing autonomic nervous system (12)
  2. 3. A distensible membranous sac (7)
  3. 5. The secretion of an endocrine gland that is transmitted by the blood to the tissue on which it has (plural) (8)
  4. 6. Any of various organs that synthesize substances needed by the body and release it through ducts (plural) (6)
  5. 7. Either of a pair of thick-walled tubes that carry urine from the kidney to the urinary bladder (plural) (7)
  6. 8. The master gland of the endocrine system (9)
  7. 10. The vascular structure in the uterus of most mammals providing oxygen and nutrients for (8)
  8. 11. Located near the base of the neck (7)
  9. 13. The male reproductive cell (5)