Bio
Across
- 5. This carries large volumes of oxygenated blood to the major organs of the body
- 7. These are plugs of solidified blood
- 10. The smallest vessels which contain oxygenated blood.
- 12. It is the heart's natural pacemaker
- 14. It reduces the volume or space inside affected blood vessels
- 16. A minute artery, especially one that leads to a capillary
- 17. Also called White Blood Cells
- 19. It is often considered specialized epithelial cells which line blood vessels
- 20. network of capillaries
- 22. It is the upper chamber through which blood enters the ventricles of the heart
- 24. They are responsible for returning deoxygenated blood back to the heart after arteries carry blood out
- 27. It is a protein that carries oxygen
- 29. it's function is to seal off the windpipe during eating
- 30. It is a hollow muscular organ that pumps the blood through the circulatory system by rhythmic contraction and dilation
Down
- 1. A tube-shaped organ in the neck that contains the vocal cords
- 2. A small vein that connects the capillaries to the large, systemic vein.
- 3. It is a reaction in which the cells clump together
- 4. The main passageway into the lungs
- 6. They are artery blood vessels which transports oxygenated blood to the substance of the heart
- 8. Tt is a body cavity that connects the nasal and oral cavities with the larynx and esophagus
- 9. The amount of blood the heart pumps through the circulatory system in a minute
- 11. Widening of blood vessels that results from relaxation of the muscular walls of the vessels
- 13. It is the pressure of the blood within the arteries
- 15. Tiny air sacs within the lungs where the exchange of oxygen and carbon dioxide takes place
- 18. It is the main artery that carries blood away from your heart to the rest of your body
- 21. Tubes in the lungs which branch off from the larger bronchi that enter each lung
- 23. A small, colorless cell fragments that participate in blood clotting
- 25. A chamber of the heart that receives blood from one or more atria and pumps it by muscular contraction into the arteries
- 26. It is cancer of the body's blood-forming tissues
- 28. The space between the vocal fold and arytenoid cartilage of one side of the larynx and those of the other side