Blood Cells Crossword
Across
- 1. White blood cells
- 3. fight disease by producing antibodies, destroying foreign cells.
- 4. the number of these cells increase in the healing phase of inflammation.
- 5. Platelets (clotting cells)
- 6. foreign agent that stimulates the production of an antibody
- 9. engulf and digest bacteria
- 10. spins the blood so quickly that it separates
- 14. are active and increased in number in allergic conditions such as asthma.
- 17. substance that prevent blood clotting
- 18. formation of blood cells
- 19. destruction of red blood cells
- 20. deficiency in the number of red blood cells
Down
- 2. red blood cells; made in the bone marrow.
- 7. formation of red blood cells
- 8. large phagocytes
- 11. Polymorphonuclear cells and are formed in the bone marrow.
- 12. protein made by white blood cells in response to atigens in the blood
- 13. major blood proteins
- 15. Phagocytes
- 16. an important protein in erythrocytes that carries oxygen through the bloodstream.