Heart Awareness
Across
- 4. heart defect present at birth that prevents the heart from working correctly.
- 5. transport oxygenated blood from the aorta to the body's tissues.
- 8. the left lower chamber of the heart that is also called the "workhorse" of the heart. It is the thickest muscle of the heart and produces the strongest contraction. Pumps oxygenated blood to all the organs.
- 9. main artery that disseminates oxygen-rich blood from the heart to the body.
Down
- 1. Vein The pathway that transports newly oxygenated blood from the lungs to the left atrium of the heart.
- 2. transports deoxygenated blood from the heart to the lungs for reoxygenation.
- 3. The left upper chamber of the heart that receives newly oxygenated blood from the lungs.
- 6. pathway that returns deoxygenated blood from the body to the heart.
- 7. transport deoxygenated blood from the tissues back to the vena cava.