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