Circulatory System (Entertainment Section)

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  1. 4. Receives oxygenated blood from the pulmonary veins
  2. 6. Prevents deoxygenated blood from flowing back into the right atrium
  3. 8. Muscular tissue that separates the left and right sides of the heart
  4. 11. Muscle that forms the heart wall
  5. 14. Instrument that measures blood pressure
  6. 16. Receives deoxygenated blood
  7. 17. Brings oxygenated blood to the left atrium
  8. 19. Pumps deoxygenated blood into the pulmonary circulatory system
  9. 20. A strand like molecule that joins with others to form a blood clot
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  1. 1. Protein based molecule that contains iron and combines with oxygen in a red blood cell.\
  2. 2. Contraction stage of the cardiac cycle that leaves blood from the heart chambers
  3. 3. Pumps oxygenated blood into the systemic circulation
  4. 5. Prevents the back flow of oxygenated blood into the left atrium
  5. 7. Brings deoxygenated blood from the systemic circulatory system to the heart
  6. 9. High blood pressure
  7. 10. Relaxation stage of the cardiac cycle that allows blood to flow into the heart chambers
  8. 12. Largest artery in the body and accepts blood from the left ventricle during systole.
  9. 13. Thin-walled chamber of the heart that receives blood
  10. 15. Brings deoxygenated blood from the right ventricle to the lungs
  11. 18. Oxygen transport throughout the body resulting from a decrease in blood hemoglobin or red blood cell number