cardiovascular system
Across
- 5. largest artery in the body
- 6. Instrument to measure blood pressure
- 8. abnormal swishing sound
- 9. Thin-walled vessel that carries blood from body tissues and lungs back to the heart.
- 11. inner lining of the heart
- 13. record of the electrical activity of the heart
- 15. small artery
Down
- 1. muscular middle layer of the heart
- 2. valve between the left atrium and the left ventricle
- 3. beat of the heart as felt through the walls of the arteries
- 4. contraction phase of the heartbeat
- 7. Small vein.
- 10. blood vessels that branch from the aorta
- 12. relaxation phase of the heartbeat
- 14. innermost lining of blood vessels.