Across
- 2. a medical science that deals with the blood and blood-forming organs
- 4. a science that deals with poisons and their effect and with the problems involved
- 5. a science that studies extremely small forms of life like bacteria and viruses
- 6. a method for the differential staining of bacteria by treatment with a watery solution of iodine and the iodide of potassium after staining with a triphenylmethane dye
- 9. a cell that carries oxygen from the lungs to the body tissues
- 12. the watery part of blood that contains blood cells
- 13. a gelatinous colloidal extract of a red alga used especially in culture media or as a gelling and stabilizing agent in foods
- 14. the process of transfusing fluid into a vein or artery
- 16. chemical analysis of urine
- 18. to maintain under conditions favorable for hatching, development, or reaction
Down
- 1. a polymer that is composed of polysaccharide and peptide chains and is found especially in bacterial cell walls
- 3. any of the ions (as of sodium or calcium) that in biological fluid regulate or affect most metabolic processes
- 7. any of a large number of proteins of high molecular weight that are produced normally by specialized B cells after stimulation by an antigen
- 8. the act or process of cultivating living material
- 10. an iron-containing respiratory pigment of vertebrate blood cells
- 11. platelet also a cell with a similar clotting function
- 15. tending to prevent, inhibit, or destroy life
- 17. Any of several types of blood cells that help defend the body from infection
- 19. a harmful substance that causes the body to produce antibodies