Prefixes, Root Words, Blood Vessels and Blood Components
Across
- 5. carries oxygen from the lungs to the body tissue
- 6. fills prescriptions written by a doctor and educates patients
- 9. the way that veins move blood back to the heart from our extremities
- 11. the largest single component of blood
- 13. lungs
- 14. vein
- 16. artery
- 17. cancer that affects the white blood cells
- 20. blood vessels that take blood back to the heart
- 22. blood clot
- 23. medical test that records the electrical activity of the heart
- 25. white
- 27. within
- 30. sickle cell anemia is transmitted this way.
- 32. draw blood for testing and donation
- 34. white blood cells they protect the body from harmful invaders
Down
- 1. vein
- 2. around
- 3. red
- 4. doctor that specializes in the lungs
- 7. the kind of therapist that helps patients with breathing
- 8. blood vessel
- 10. the smallest blood cell that helps the the blood to clot
- 12. blood vessels that take oxygenated blood from the heart to our muscles and organs
- 15. electricity
- 18. the number of liters of blood in our body
- 19. slow
- 21. what could happen if our veins have problems with valves
- 24. against
- 26. fast
- 27. between
- 28. self
- 29. blood vessels that connect arteries to veins
- 31. heart
- 33. another name for platelet