Across
- 2. — Organ capable of regenerating itself after damage
- 5. — Structure that actually shrinks slightly during the day from gravity
- 6. — Organs whose surface area is roughly the size of a tennis court
- 9. — Liquid that helps you taste food (without it, flavors are harder to detect)
- 10. — Muscle that can keep beating outside the body briefly under the right conditions
- 11. — Organ that uses about 20% of the body’s total energy
Down
- 1. — Bone that doesn’t fully develop until childhood
- 3. — Hair that helps keep dust out of your eyes
- 4. — Organ that renews itself roughly every month
- 7. — The smallest bone in the human body, located in the ear
- 8. — Muscle that never gets tired the way most others do
- 9. — Organ that produces acid strong enough to dissolve metal (but protects itself)
- 11. — Body structures that you are born with about 270 of, but adults have only 206
