Cardiovascular System Vocabulary
Across
- 2. Largest artery in the body; carries blood away from the heart.
- 7. Deoxygenated blood has low oxygen and more c.d
- 9. Blood leaves the heart, it carries though out the body in blood vessels.
- 11. Connect arterioles with venules, the smallest veins.
- 12. Supplying oxygen to tissue
- 14. A muscular, hollow organ often called the "pump" of the body.
- 15. Veins and blood vessels that carry blood back to the heart.
Down
- 1. Moves the blood between the heart and lungs.
- 3. Carry blood away from the heart.
- 4. Provises and delivers oxygen to the heart.
- 5. The iron-containing protein of red blood cells; serves to carry oxygen from the lungs to the tissues
- 6. Pertaining to the heart and blood vessels.
- 8. Fluid that circulates through the vessels in the body to carry substances to all body parts.
- 10. Distributes oxygenated blood from the heart to the tissue
- 13. Irregular or abnormal rhythm, usually refering to the heart rhythm.