Lab Week

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 3. An amber, watery fluid, rich in proteins, that separates out when blood coagulates (5)
  2. 4. Weakening by the addition of water or a thinner (8)
  3. 8. An immature red blood cell containing a network of filaments or granules (12)
  4. 10. The taxonomic group whose characteristics are used to define the next higher taxon (4)
  5. 13. Number needed to make up a whole force (10)
  6. 15. To cause or order to be taken, directed, or transmitted to another place (7)
  7. 16. Any of a large variety of proteins normally present in the body or produced in response to (8)

Down

  1. 1. A protein containing 20% iron that is found in the intestines and liver and spleen (8)
  2. 2. The branch of medical science that deals with serums (8)
  3. 5. The branch of pharmacology that deals with the nature and effects and treatments of poisons (10)
  4. 6. The branch of medicine that deals with diseases of the blood and blood-forming organs (10)
  5. 7. The science of matter (9)
  6. 9. Spindle-shaped bacterial cell especially one swollen at the center by an endospore (11)
  7. 11. Lysis of erythrocytes with the release of hemoglobin (9)
  8. 12. A place for storing whole ___ or ___ plasma (9)
  9. 14. The concentration of a solution as determined by titration (5)