Circulatory System Crossword
Across
- 3. Chief phagocytic of white blood cells found in blood
- 5. Volume of blood pumped from the left ventricle per heart beat
- 9. Two upper cavities of the heart from which blood is passed throughout ventricles
- 10. Cord-like tendons that connect the papillary muscles to the tricuspid valve and the mitral valve inside the heart
- 13. Pair of valves in the heart at the bases of the aorta and the pulmonary artery, consisting of three cusps that prevent the flow of blood back into the heart
- 15. Process by which the cardiovascular system carries deoxygenated blood away from the heart and returns oxygenated blood back into the heart
- 18. Red protein that transports oxygen in the blood of vertebrates
- 21. Wall separating the lower chambers (Ventricles) of the heart
- 24. Red blood cell that is typically an biconcave disc without a nucleus
- 25. White blood cell that has coarse granules found in its cytoplasm
- 28. Membrane enclosing the heart, has an outer fibrous layer and inner double layer of serous membrane
- 30. Main artery of the body that supplies oxygenated blood to the circulatory system
- 31. Hollow part or cavity found in an organ
- 32. Formation and development of blood cells
- 33. White blood cell with secretory granules found in its cytoplasm
- 34. Large phagocytic white blood cell with a simple oval nucleus and clear, grayish cytoplasm
Down
- 1. Colorless cell that circulates in the blood and body fluids that fights against foreign substances and disease
- 2. Sequence of events in the heart from the beginning of one beat to the beginning of the following beat
- 4. Delivers de-oxygenated blood to the other corresponding lung
- 6. Process by which the cardiovascular system carries oxygenated blood away from the heart and returns de-oxygenated blood back into the heart
- 7. Granular leukocyte that's irregularly shaped with a nucleus that is partially constricted into two lobes, the cytoplasm contains coarse bluish-black granules of varying sizes
- 8. Phase of the heartbeat when the heart contracts and pumps blood from the chambers into the arteries
- 11. Phase of the heartbeat when the heart relaxes and allows the chambers to fill with blood
- 12. Colorless fluid part of blood in which corpuscles or fat globules are suspended
- 14. Where blood flows from the heart though the atria into the ventricles
- 16. Form of a small leukocyte with a single round nucleus mostly found in the lymphatic system
- 17. Disease of the arteries in which the deposition of plaques of fatty material on their inner walls
- 19. Abnormally high blood pressure
- 20. Stoppage or stopping of a flowing of blood
- 22. White blood cell with a one-lobed nucleus with no granules found in its cytoplasm
- 23. Sounds caused by turbulence caused by the closure of mitral and tricuspid valves at the start of systole
- 26. Stem cell that produces blood cells
- 27. Often found in large groups, small colorless disk-shaped cell fragment without a nucleus, most often involved in clotting
- 29. Sounds during your heartbeat such as whooshing or swishing made by turbulent blood in or near your heart