National Medical Laboratory Week Carolina Family Care Laboratory

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 3. A monosaccharide sugar that has several forms (7)
  2. 5. An apparatus that uses ___ force to separate particles from a suspension (10)
  3. 6. The branch of medical science that deals with serums (8)
  4. 7. Surgical incision into a vein (10)
  5. 10. Puncture of a vein through the skin in order to withdraw blood for analysis or to start (12)
  6. 11. A light soft silver-white metallic element of the alkali metal group (9)
  7. 12. A ___ technique used to classify bacteria (9)
  8. 14. Tiny bits of protoplasm found in vertebrate blood (plural) (9)
  9. 16. Red liquid pumped around the body by the heart (5)

Down

  1. 1. The science of matter (9)
  2. 2. White goods in which food can be stored at low temperatures (12)
  3. 4. The concentration of a solution as determined by titration (5)
  4. 8. Diurnal insect typically having a slender body with knobbed antennae and broad colorful wings (9)
  5. 9. The branch of medicine that deals with diseases of the blood and blood-forming organs (10)
  6. 13. A deficiency of red blood cells (6)
  7. 15. Any of a large variety of proteins normally present in the body or produced in response to (8)