Connective

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Across
  1. 4. Area of the body that contains elastic cartilage
  2. 6. Tissue that is tightly packet with collagenous fiber with fibroblasts
  3. 12. White fibers
  4. 13. Spaces around cartilage cells
  5. 16. Type of blood cell that transports oxygen & carbon dioxide
  6. 17. Fibers that are short: thing and delicate; composed of protein
  7. 19. Connective tissue with 3 types of cells suspended in plasma
  8. 21. Area that contains elastic cartilage
  9. 23. Most common type of cartilage; gristle
  10. 24. Most rigid connective tissue
  11. 26. Intracellular material is composed mostly of a ground substance and these
  12. 27. Root word means to eat or an eater
  13. 28. area of the body where you find fibrocartilage
  14. 29. Type of blood cell that fights infection
Down
  1. 1. Blood cells that aid in clotting
  2. 2. Material found between connective tissue cells
  3. 3. Cartilage cells
  4. 5. Found between the backbone and knee
  5. 7. Connective tissue that occupies the space within the bone
  6. 8. made of fibrous connective tissue
  7. 9. A bone cell
  8. 10. Cells that engulf foreign substances
  9. 11. canals found in bones
  10. 14. Adipose tissue may be found under this organ; largest of the body
  11. 15. Cells that form various fibers of connective tissue
  12. 18. Most widely distributed of all connective tissue; AKA areolar
  13. 20. substance stored by adipose tissue
  14. 22. A specialized form of loose connective tissue; stores fat
  15. 25. Yellow fibers; thin