Hannah Gust Unit 4 vocabulary

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Across
  1. 3. receives oxygenated blood from the lungs through the right and left pulmonary veins
  2. 8. allows blood to flow out of the right ventricle to the lungs
  3. 11. occurs when part of the mitral valve slips backward into the atrium during contraction of the left ventricle
  4. 13. carry blood Away from the heart
  5. 17. receives deoxygenated blood from the body via the inferior and superior vena cava
  6. 20. separates the aorta from the left ventricle
  7. 21. used to help lower blood pressure
Down
  1. 1. sends deoxygenated blood to the lungs through the pulmonary artery
  2. 2. ends oxygenated blood to the body through the aorta
  3. 4. prevents the oxygenated blood in the left ventricle from returning to the left atrium during the forceful squeeze of the lower chamber
  4. 5. are very tiny, (hair-sized) thin-walled blood vessels where gas, nutrients and wastes are exchanged with the cells
  5. 6. is enlargement of the left ventricle
  6. 7. striated, voluntary muscle
  7. 9. cardiac muscle
  8. 10. technical name for blood
  9. 12. carry blood towards the heart
  10. 14. is the muscular wall of the heart
  11. 15. Left ventricle sends oxygenated blood to the body through the__________.
  12. 16. Carries blood from the right ventricle of the heart to the lungs
  13. 18. striated, branched, involuntary muscle containing intercalated discs
  14. 19. pressure is the force of blood on the walls of blood vessels