Cardiovascular Crossword

5. -concave on both sides
9. clot -gel-like clumps of blood
11. -Areas where deoxygenated and oxygenated blood enter
12. -blood vessels that distribute oxygen-rich blood to your entire body
13. -blood vessels located throughout your body that collect oxygen-poor blood and return it to your heart
14. -a kind of white blood cell that helps fight disease
15. -the action or process of a liquid changing to a solid or semi-solid state
17. -stop and prevent bleeding
18. -White blood cells
19. -Cardiac muscle
21. -Blood's Liquid matrix
23. -branched vessels that feed the tissues and collect wastes to be carried back to the lungs, liver, or kidney for elimination
24. -pieces of very large cells in the bone marrow

1. -a protein in red blood cells that carries oxygen
2. Plug Formation -process where a platelet plug forms to prevent further loss of blood from a damaged vessel
3. -the percentage volume of red cells in your blood
4. -provides a structural framework to the cardiac myocytes
6. -type of white blood cell that act as your immune system's first line of defense
7. -Red blood cells
8. -the mechanism that leads to cessation of bleeding from a blood vessel
9. -white blood cell that works closely with your immune system to defend your body from allergens, pathogens and parasites
10. Spasm -when a brain blood vessel narrows, blocking blood flow
16. -the two lower chambers of the heart, one on the right and one on the left.
20. -prevent the backward flow of blood.
22. -type of white blood cell