Cardiovascular System
Across
- 6. Medical term for hardening of body tissue
- 8. This bundle is the same as the bundle of His
- 10. This portion of your blood pressure is represented as the bottom number
- 12. This happens when the mitral valve protrudes into the left atrium when the ventricle contracts
- 14. When your heart is contracting
- 18. This is when there is backflow of blood between the left ventricle and atrium
- 20. Another name for the visceral pericardium
- 21. The upper 2 chambers of the heart are called the left and right ____
- 22. The SA (sinoatrial) node, is best known for being the ___ of the heart
- 24. The lower 2 chambers of the heart are called the left and right __
- 27. Deoxygenated blood pumped from the right side of the heart to the lungs is what kind of circulation?
- 28. Separates the left and right sections of the heart
Down
- 1. Medical term for narrowing
- 2. This type of circulation is from blood being pumped from the left side of the heart to be supplied to all body tissue
- 3. This vein is the only vein in the body that carries oxygenated blood, and it carries it to the heart
- 4. During this, the ventricles are contracting (seen on an EKG)
- 5. This valve separates the left atrium and left ventricle
- 7. Cardiac ___ is when a thin tube goes into the heart to collect helpful information about its structures, coronary arteries, and great vessels
- 9. This is the sac that hold the heart
- 11. Which portal’s circulation allows for blood from your other organs (spleen, gallbladder, pancreas, stomach, and intestines) to be taken to the liver for filtration?
- 12. These fibers send electrical impulses to ventricular myocardial cells, causing contraction
- 13. The pulmonary artery is the only artery in the body that carries this type of blood
- 15. Valves in the heart that lead to processes outside of the body (located between ventricles and the arteries)
- 16. The waiting/resting stage of cardiac cells before an electronic impulse hits them
- 17. Atrial ___ is when there is a rapid, regular rhythm in your atria
- 19. Elevated heart rate
- 23. Inner lining of the heart
- 25. The ___ valve separates the right atrium and ventricle
- 26. This volume is the amount of blood pushed from the L ventricle during each contraction