Heart Review
Across
- 3. Low blood pressure.
- 5. When fluid builds up around the heart and causes it to pump inefficiently.(Abbreviation)
- 7. The measure of pressure when the heart ventricles are contracting.
- 9. The upper chambers of the heart that receives blood from the body.
- 10. Separates the heart into right and left halves.
- 12. The pacemaker of the heart.
- 14. One of the main functions of the heart is to take carbon dioxide and _______ away from cells.
- 17. The measure of pressure between heart contractions.
- 18. The middle layer of the heart muscle.
- 20. This side of the heart contains deoxygenated blood.
- 21. Type of blood vessel that carries deoxygenated blood towards the heart.
- 22. This is the location where oxygen and carbon dioxide are transported into and out of blood.
Down
- 1. This circuit is on the left side of the heart. It sends oxygenated blood to the body.
- 2. The lower chambers of the heart that pump blood out of the heart.
- 4. This measures blood pressure.
- 6. The outermost layer of the heart.
- 8. When a blood vessel becomes blocked or ruptures and causes brain cells to die.
- 9. Blood disorder where there is a decreased amount of red blood cells or hemoglobin in blood.
- 11. Inflammation of the inner layer of the heart.
- 13. There are specific parts of our body that does not need oxygen.(True or False)
- 15. This circuit is on the right side of the heart. It sends deoxygenated blood to the lungs to get oxygen.
- 16. Type of blood vessel that carries oxygenated blood away from the heart.
- 19. One of the main functions of the heart is to send ___________ and nutrients to your cells.