Asthma

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 4. Low in temperature; also a sniffly illness (plural) (5)
  2. 6. Any sensation or change in bodily function that is experienced by a patient and is associated (plural) (8)
  3. 10. A sudden noisy expulsion of air from the lungs that clears the air passages (8)
  4. 11. An organic process that takes place in the body (8)
  5. 14. How hot or cold something is (11)
  6. 15. A bluish discoloration of the skin and mucous membranes (8)
  7. 16. Floor covering consisting of a piece of thick heavy fabric (plural) (7)

Down

  1. 1. A woman who sings popular songs (6)
  2. 2. The fine spores that contain male gametes and that are borne by an anther in a flowering plant (6)
  3. 3. A hot vapor containing fine particles of carbon being produced by combustion (5)
  4. 5. Fine powdery material such as dry earth or pollen that can be blown about in the air (4)
  5. 7. A state occasioned by scarcity of money and a shortage of credit (9)
  6. 8. A dispenser that produces a chemical vapor to be ___ in order to relieve nasal congestion (7)
  7. 9. Any of numerous chiefly nocturnal insects (9)
  8. 12. Intense adverse criticism (6)
  9. 13. Either of two saclike respiratory organs in the chest of vertebrates (plural) (5)