Cardiovascular system
Across
- 5. A double layered sac that surrounds and protects the heart from overfilling with blood
- 6. Largest artery that curves over the heart
- 8. Located in the ventricles of the heart and they attach to the cusps of the atrioventricular valves
- 11. One of the four valves in the heart and located between the right atrium and ventricle
- 13. Thickest and most powerful chamber of the heart and receives oxygenated blood from the left atrium and pumps it out to the body
- 14. Thinner walls than arteries and contain valves to prevent backflow of blood
- 15. One of the four chambers that receives oxygenated blood from the lungs
Down
- 1. One of the four chambers of the heart that receives deoxygenated blood from the body
- 2. Also known as the Mitral valve, located between the left atrium and ventricle
- 3. One of the four chambers of the heart that receives deoxygenated blood from the right atrium
- 4. The muscular middle layer of the heart wall
- 7. Smallest blood vessels in the body, connection arterioles and venules, thin walls
- 9. Small-diameter blood vessels that branch out from arteries and lead to capillaries
- 10. Outermost layer of the heart wall, a thin serous membrane
- 12. Large vein that carries deoxygenated blood to the heart from the body