Across
- 7. a two word name for the areolar connective tissue under a mucous membrane
- 8. the adjective of a tissue that makes blood
- 11. The most common protein fiber in your body
- 13. a scientific name that refers to platelets
- 14. rod like bony structures inside a spongy bone
- 15. The embryological origin of connective tissues
- 16. What skeletal muscle and cardiac muscle have in common
- 17. the living space/area of cartilage and bone cells
- 18. The helper cells of the nervous system
- 20. what we find in the intercalated discs of cardiac muscle and between smooth muscle cells (2 words)
Down
- 1. A 'juvenile' cartilage cell
- 2. The cell at the start of all connective tissue propers
- 3. a chemical released by mast cells
- 4. very long slender projection of a neuron
- 5. A location where elastic cartilage is found
- 6. scientific name of a red blood cell
- 7. The concentric circles around the central canal of an osteon
- 9. When we combine ground substance and protein fibers
- 10. The name for the cell body of a neuron
- 12. a protein fiber that is neither collagen nor elastic
- 19. a location (plural) where one would find dense regular connective tissue