Body Parts

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 1. A division of some larger or more complex organization (3)
  2. 3. A small pendant fleshy lobe at the back of the soft palate (5)
  3. 6. Large and complicated reddish-brown glandular organ located in the upper right portion of (5)
  4. 7. A mobile mass of muscular tissue covered with mucous membrane and located in the oral cavity (6)
  5. 8. The organ of sight (plural) (4)
  6. 9. Either of two bean-shaped excretory organs that filter wastes from the blood and excrete them (6)
  7. 13. The passage between the pharynx and the stomach (9)
  8. 14. A large dark-red oval organ on the left side of the body between the stomach and the diaphragm (6)

Down

  1. 2. Animal tissue consisting predominantly of contractile cells (6)
  2. 4. Either of two saclike respiratory organs in the chest of vertebrates (plural) (5)
  3. 5. The posterior part of a human body from the neck to the end of the spine (4)
  4. 7. Either of two masses of lymphatic tissue one on each side of the oral pharynx (plural) (7)
  5. 8. The membrane in the ear that vibrates to sound (7)
  6. 10. The region of the body of a vertebrate between the thorax and the pelvis (7)
  7. 11. A blood vessel that carries blood from the capillaries toward the heart (plural) (5)
  8. 12. Supplementary material that is collected and ___ at the back of a book (8)