Revision Crossword - Cardiac Cycle and Blood Clotting
Across
- 2. The vein responsible for delivering deoxygenated blood from the body back to the heart
- 3. An event during the cardiac cycle where the muscles in the atria contract
- 5. The valves that prevent blood flowing back from the ventricles into vena cava or pulmonary vein
- 7. Cell fragments found in blood that re responsible for helping to initiate blood clotting
- 9. An event during the cardiac cycle where the atria and the ventricles are relaxed
- 10. A group of conducting fibres found in the heart that pass electrical impulses to the ventricles
- 12. A term used to describe the bonding involved in the 3D shape of a protein
- 14. An inactive, soluble form of fibrin
- 15. A structure located in the right atrium that is responsible for controlling the timing of contractions during the cardiac cycle (3 words)
- 17. The largest artery in the human body
- 18. A response to pathogen exposure that usually results in reddened skin, heat, pain and swelling
Down
- 1. An event during electrical impulses where the inside of a neuron becomes more positive in a short period of time
- 4. A test that records the electrical activity of the heart
- 6. A hypothesis used to describe how the shape of enzyme changes as it binds a substrate (2 words)
- 8. An enzyme responsible for the production of fibrin
- 11. A class of proteins that often have hydrophilic residues on their outside surface
- 13. A cell with a multi-lobed nucleus that is capable of carrying out phagocytosis
- 16. A term that could be used to describe the series of reactions produced in response to damaged tissues, like cut blood vessels
- 19. A term used to refer to the "bottom" of the heart, where contractions in the ventricles start