Cardiovascular System Vocabulary

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Across
  1. 1. Irregular or abnormal rhythm, usually referring to the heart rhythm
  2. 3. The process of providing or combining or treating with oxygen
  3. 4. Gas exchange occurs at lung capillary beds
  4. 6. Pertaining to the heart and blood vessels
  5. 7. Fluid that circulates through the vessels in the body to carry substances to all body parts
  6. 10. Connect arterioles with venules, the smallest veins
  7. 12. Blood that has a low level of carbon dioxide
  8. 13. Largest arteryin the body it carries blood away from the heart
  9. 14. Tubes through which blood is pumped around the body
  10. 15. Blood vessel that carriers blood back to the heart
Down
  1. 2. Carry blood away from the heart
  2. 5. The main blood vessel that supple oxygen and nutrient to the heart muscle
  3. 8. The heart is a muscular hollow organ often called the "pump" of the body
  4. 9. Pertaining the whole body
  5. 11. The iron containing protein of the red blood cells serves to carry oxygen from the lungs to the tissues