body system
Across
- 3. a fungal infection in the skin, hair or nails; often called ringworm
- 4. the chemical store of glucose in the liver and muscles
- 8. the organism a parasite lives in
- 10. able to make the antibiotic to pathogen before it make you unwell
- 12. microscopic, single - celled organisms
- 15. the cells on which a hormone acts
- 16. a cell that viruses have invaded
- 18. the process of maintaining a constant internal environment
- 19. the system in your body that fights infection
- 22. endocrine gland situated in the kidneys
- 24. a chemical that causes your body to react as if had encountered a pathogen
- 25. a viral disease that cause a rash
- 26. the part the neurone that contains the nucleus
Down
- 1. a nerve fibre that sends nerve impulses away from the cell body
- 2. an organism that causes disease
- 5. the nerve that carries messages to the brain from the retina at the back of the eye
- 6. a single cell with a tough skin that fungi use to spread
- 7. anything that causes our body to stop working properly
- 9. a viral disease; symptoms include a rash of small, itchy blisters
- 11. the lower half to the brain stem
- 13. a disease that can a be spread
- 14. a never cell
- 17. chemical substances that act as messengers in the body
- 20. the space between two neurones
- 21. the common name for the hormone epinephrine
- 23. actions quick, automatic actions that protect the body from danger, they are also know as reflexes
- 24. a pathogen about one hundred times smaller than a bacterium