Circulatory System Crossword

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