Chapter 18,19,20
Across
- 5. pacemaker: Device regulating heartbeats.
- 7. (plural = atria): Heart's upper chambers pumping blood.
- 9. Iron-containing pigment in hemoglobin.
- 11. pathway: Coagulation pathway triggered by tissue damage.
- 13. valve: Valve at the base of the aorta.
- 14. Heart's ability to self-initiate contractions.
- 16. leukocytes: White blood cells with granules.
- 17. septum: Wall dividing the heart's ventricles.
- 18. Protein component of hemoglobin.
- 20. Insoluble protein forming blood clots.
- 21. Embryonic germ layer.
- 22. Percentage of red blood cells in blood.
- 24. bundle: Pathway for impulses between atria.
- 25. disc: Junctions allowing cardiac cell communication.
- 27. arteries: Branches supplying right ventricle's surface.
Down
- 1. (AV) node: Myocardial cluster transmitting impulses within the heart.
- 2. Breakdown of a blood clot.
- 3. mechanism: Increased stretch boosts heart contraction force.
- 4. Outer layer of the heart wall.
- 6. Blood-clotting plasma protein.
- 8. rate (HR): Number of heartbeats per minute.
- 10. Plasma proteins with various roles.
- 11. (EPO): Hormone stimulating red blood cell production.
- 12. ovalis: Depression marking the former foramen ovale.
- 13. Extension of an atrium on the heart's superior surface.
- 14. Extension of an atrium on the heart's superior surface.
- 15. block: Disruption in the heart's conduction pathway.
- 19. cardiac vein: Drains blood from heart's front.
- 23. reflex: Heart rate increase from atrial stretch.
- 26. ovale: Fetal heart opening bypassing lungs.