Blood, Blood Vessels and the Heart
Across
- 3. Valve between the right atrium and right ventricle
- 6. Chemical messengers carried in the plasma
- 9. Lower chamber of the heart
- 14. Type of white blood cell that engulfs pathogens
- 15. Shape of red blood cells
- 16. Name of the blood vessel bringing deoxygenated blood to the heart
- 18. Ventricle with the thickest wall
- 19. Waste product carried in the plasma
- 20. Thickness of capillary walls
Down
- 1. Blood vessel with the thickest wall
- 2. Organelle missing in red blood cells
- 4. Number of chambers in the heart
- 5. Name of artery that carries blood from your heart to your lungs
- 7. Gas carried by red blood cells
- 8. Component of blood involved in blood clotting
- 10. Protein in red blood cells that combines reversibly with oxygen
- 11. Type of white blood cell that produce antibodies that respond to specific antigens on the surface of pathogens
- 12. Makes up 55% of blood
- 13. Prevent backflow in veins
- 17. Upper chamber of the heart