human body parts
Across
- 1. a pair of breathing organs located with the chest which remove carbon dioxide from and bring oxygen to the blood
- 5. tough, high-tensile-strength band of dense fibrous connective tissue that connects muscle to bone
- 7. large bone inside your thigh
- 9. any small opening in the skin or outer surface of an animal
- 12. group of bones in the human hand, between the wrist and the finger bones
- 14. blood vessel in humans and most animals that takes blood away from the heart to one or more parts of the body (tissues, lungs, brain etc.)
- 16. bones of a human or an animal considered as a whole, together forming the framework of the body
- 18. blood vessel that carries oxygen-poor blood from the body back to the heart
- 19. joint in the human body that connects the hand to the forearm
Down
- 2. long bone found in the forearm that stretches from the elbow to the smallest finger, and when in anatomical position, is found on the medial side of the forearm
- 3. passage from the mouth to the stomach or to the lungs
- 4. muscular, hollow organ in the gastrointestinal tract of humans and many other animals
- 6. nasal cycle is the normal ultradian cycle of each nostril's blood vessels becoming engorged in swelling, then shrinking
- 8. small triangular bone at the base of the spinal column in humans and some apes
- 10. pear-shaped, muscular sac attached to the undersurface of the right lobe of the liver, in which bile is stored and concentrated
- 11. organ of sight or vision
- 12. group of muscle tissues which contract together to produce a force
- 13. self-contained group of tissues that performs a specific function in the body
- 15. forward pointed part of the anterior mandible (mental region) below the lower lip
- 17. joint of the leg that allows for movement between the femur and tibia and is protected by the patella