Cardiovascular System Vocabulary
Across
- 2. Vessels Tubes through which blood is pumped around the body
- 7. The iron containing protein of the red blood cells, serves to carry oxygen from the lungs to the tissues
- 8. Gas exchange occurs at lung capillary beds
- 11. Tiny blood vessels that connects arteries and venues and allows for exchange of nutrient and gases between the blood and body of cells
- 12. Hallow organ that pumps blood through the body
- 14. Largest artery in the body carries blood away from the heart
- 15. Pertaining to the heart and blood vessels
Down
- 1. Pertaining the whole body
- 3. The process of providing or combining or treating with oxygen
- 4. Fluid that circulates through the vessels in the body to carry substances to all body parts
- 5. Blood that has a low level of oxygen and high level of carbon dioxide
- 6. The main blood vessel that supplies oxygen and nutrient to the heart muscle
- 9. Blood vessel that carries blood back to the heart
- 10. Irregular or abnormal rythm,sucelly referring to the heart rhyth
- 13. Blood vessel that carries blood away from the heart