Across
- 4. a narrow band of nonelastic, dense, fibrous connective tissue that attaches a muscle to a bone
- 5. the surgical suturing of a muscle wound
- 8. abnormal softening of muscle tissue
- 9. person with a mental disease
- 10. the abnormal narrowing of a blood vessel
- 13. slight paralysis or weakness affecting one side of the body
- 15. the rupture or tearing of a muscle
- 17. the degeneration of muscle tissue
- 18. the fluid tissue in the body
- 19. plasma fluid after the blood cells and the clotting proteins have been removed
Down
- 1. lower than normal number of erythrocytes in the blood
- 2. rapid breathing
- 3. low number of white blood cell
- 5. a weakness or slight muscular paralysis
- 6. atrium receives oxygen-poor blood from all tissues, except the lungs, through the superior and inferior venae cavae
- 7. rupture of the uterus
- 11. an inflammation of the tendons caused by excessive or unusual use of the joint
- 12. spur a calcium deposit in the plantar fascia nears its attachment to the calcaneus bone that can be one of the causes of plantar fasciitis
- 14. a surgical incision into a muscle
- 16. injury a strain or tear on any of the three hamstring muscles