cardiovascular
Across
- 3. excess (word) causes the heart to become flacid
- 4. general vasoconstrictor
- 7. hearts own electrical power
- 10. prevents restimulation of heart
- 11. specialized conductive fibers
- 12. ejection of blood
- 16. tension on the heart muscle when it begins contraction
- 18. speeds rate of SA depolarization
- 19. ventricular contraction
- 21. sac-like chambers
Down
- 1. SBP*HR
- 2. changes in vessel diameter
- 5. excess (blank) causes heart to go into spastic contraction
- 6. heart muscle
- 8. (Mechanism)increase in venous return (EDV)increases the amount of blood pumped into theaorta
- 9. allows for chemical and electrical coupling between cells
- 13. largest blood reservoir
- 14. load against which the muscle exerts its contractile force
- 15. valve that prevents backflow of blood from the ventricles into the
- 17. hearts preferred molecule for energy production
- 20. average pressure in the arterial system during the cardiac cycle