body system
Across
- 2. a hollow part or cavity in an organ.
- 4. Tiny hair-like projections that line the inside of the small intestine
- 7. takes blood to the heart
- 8. any of the fine branching blood vessels that form a network between the arterioles and venules.
- 12. A type of blood cell that is made in the bone marrow and found in the blood.
- 13. each of the pair of organs situated within the rib cage, consisting of elastic sacs with branching passages into which air is drawn
- 14. a large membranous tube reinforced by rings of cartilage, extending from the larynx to the bronchial tubes and conveying air to and from the lungs; the windpipe
Down
- 1. any of the many tiny air sacs of the lungs which allow for rapid gaseous exchange.
- 3. A type of blood cell that is made in the bone marrow and found in the blood and lymph tissue
- 5. any of the minute branches into which a bronchus divides.
- 6. the colorless fluid part of blood, lymph, or milk, in which corpuscles or fat globules are suspended.
- 9. carries blood away from heart
- 10. a small colorless disk-shaped cell fragment without a nucleus, found in large numbers in blood and involved in clotting
- 11. any of the major air passages of the lungs which diverge from the windpipe.
- 15. each of the two upper cavities of the heart from which blood is passed to the ventricles.