Medical Detectives

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Across
  1. 4. electrical impulses (action potentials) away from the cell body to other neurons, muscles, or glands
  2. 5. the central part of a neuron containing the nucleus and organelles
  3. 7. the measure of times you breathe in a minute
  4. 10. your largest organ
  5. 12. the crucial junction where a nerve cell (neuron) communicates with another cell
  6. 13. a short branched extension of a nerve cell
  7. 14. when your body heats upon to kill off disease
  8. 15. a bacteria found in dirty water
Down
  1. 1. the measure of the times your heart beats
  2. 2. the force of blood pushing against artery walls as the heart pumps
  3. 3. The "brain" of a cell
  4. 6. an organ of soft nervous tissue contained in the skull of vertebrates,
  5. 8. the degree or intensity of heat present in a substance or object,
  6. 9. acts like electrical insulation
  7. 11. a nerve cell that sends signals or transmits nerve impulses