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