Circulatory System Vocabulary

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Across
  1. 2. Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, a disease that destroys the body's immune system
  2. 3. the heart's left ventricle pumps blood through the body; the right ventricle pumps to the lungs
  3. 4. blood cells that attack and destroy germs
  4. 7. Human Immunodeficiency Virus, the virus that causes AIDS
  5. 8. the liquid part of the blood
  6. 10. "waiting rooms" in the heart that receive blood and then send it to the ventricles
  7. 12. the entire blood system including your heart, arteries, veins and capillaries
  8. 13. any tube that carries blood
  9. 14. blood vessels that carry blood toward your heart
Down
  1. 1. blood cells that carry oxygen to body cells and take away carbon dioxide
  2. 2. blood vessels that carry blood away from your heart to the rest of your body
  3. 5. tiny, thin blood vessels that connect arteries and veins and touch just about every cell in your body
  4. 6. tiny blood cells that weave thin threads over a cut to stop bleeding
  5. 9. the chemicals white blood cells make to help them destroy germs
  6. 11. the ability of the blood to stop bleeding