The Stomach

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 2. Any of various water-soluble compounds having a sour taste and capable of turning litmus red (4)
  2. 3. The passage between the pharynx and the stomach (9)
  3. 4. Emotional distress (4)
  4. 6. A painful burning sensation in the chest caused by gastroesophageal reflux (9)
  5. 7. One of the contractile organs of the body (6)
  6. 8. A circumscribed inflammatory and often suppurating lesion on the skin or an internal mucous surface (plural) (6)

Down

  1. 1. The organic process by which food is converted into substances that can be absorbed into the body (9)
  2. 5. The region of the body of a vertebrate between the thorax and the pelvis (7)