Cardiovascular Crossword
Across
- 3. relaxation
- 6. rapid heart rate
- 10. high blood pressure
- 12. slow heart rate
- 15. a tool used to hear heart sounds
- 17. measure of heart rate
- 18. a pump of the heart
Down
- 1. a decrease in the oxygen carrying capacity of the RBC
- 2. the largest artery of the body
- 4. an orange-yellow pigment formed in the liver by the breakdown of hemoglobin
- 5. branching blood vessels that form a network between the arterioles and venules.
- 7. a disease of the heart that makes it harder to pump blood
- 8. carrying oxygen
- 9. carries blood to the heart
- 11. contraction
- 12. carries nutrients and oxygen through the body
- 13. carries blood away from the heart
- 14. thick muscular layer
- 16. pumps blood throughout our body
- 19. electrocardiogram