Cardiovascular System Vocabulary

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