GENERAL ANATOMY 1

Anatomy Crossword

Complete the crossword, then click on "Check" to check your answer. If you are stuck, you can click on "Hint" to get a free letter. Click on a number in the grid to see the clue or clues for that number. Suggestions/Comments can be mailed to praveeniyer@gsmc.edu.

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Across:

2. Resistance vessel (9)
4. A muscle that stabilizes the proximal joints to allow movements at the distal joints is called ........ (7)
5. This fundamental tissue derives nutrition by diffusion from adjacent capillaries (10)
6. This type of epiphysis is phylogenitically an independent bone in lower animals (9)
7. Type of muscle in which the swing component of force is more than the shunt component (5)
8. Area of skin supplied by a single spinal nerve (9)
11. Internal support of the cells (12)
12. Cartilage present in embryonic life is ......... cartilage (8)
13. In this system blood vessels connect two sets of capillaries at their two ends (6)
14. This type of cartilage is present in areas concerned with vibration (7)
18. This type of bone is filled with air-filled spaces lined by mucuous membrane (9)
20. Part of autonomic nervous system that works during stress and strain to fight, fright or flight (11)
21. Neurons with two cell processes (7)
22. Secondary cartilaginous joint (9)
23. Type of muscles in which the fleshy fibres are oblique to the line of pull (7)
24. Part of a long bone that ossifies from secondary centre of ossification (9)

Down:

1. Unicellular exocrine gland (6,4)
3. The process of preserving cadavers for the purpose of anatomical dissection (9)
5. Arteries that do not form anastomoses are called .......... arteries (3)
9. An example of dense regular connective tissue (6)
10. Solid joints (12)
15. Replication of DNA takes place in this stage of cell cycle (9)
16. Pathological discontinuity in skeleton (8)
17. Closed sac lined by synovial membrane filled with lubricating fluid (5)
19. Type of joint in which the synovial cavity is divided into compartments by a fibrocartilaginous disc (7)