CVD crossword

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Across
  1. 3. Smallest blood vessels that connect arteries and veins
  2. 7. generates electrical impulses continuously and sets the rate of the heart beat
  3. 8. Chest pain caused by inadequate supply of oxygen to the heart muscle
  4. 11. Thin walled chambers that receive the blood entering the heart
  5. 13. separates the right atrium from the right ventricle
  6. 14. Removed from the body by lungs in exhaled air
  7. 15. Largest artery in the human body
  8. 17. When oxygen is removed from the blood, it is considered ______
  9. 19. Moves blood one way through the heart and prevents the backward flow of blood
  10. 20. _____ blood carries oxygen and glucose used in respiration of the body’s cells
Down
  1. 1. medical term for high blood pressure
  2. 2. Largest vein in the human body
  3. 4. Spongy air-filled organs on either side of the chest responsible for respiration
  4. 5. Artery that carries deoxygenated blood from the right side of the heart to the lungs
  5. 6. During an Adrenaline rush, heart rate and blood pressure ______
  6. 9. When going from supine to standing, blood pressure will _______
  7. 10. Separates the left atrium and left ventricle
  8. 12. thick-walled chambers that forcefully pump blood out of the heart
  9. 16. Carries low oxygenated blood from the body back to the heart
  10. 18. Carries oxygen-rich blood from the heart to the rest of the body