The Circulatory System: The Heart
Across
- 2. makes up most of heart, mainly consisting of cardiac muscle
- 5. heart's own type of muscle, short and fat, one or two nuclei each, branched and interlocked with each other
- 7. type of semilunar valve
- 8. cardiac and skeletal muscle are _______
- 10. receiving chambers
- 13. layer of endothelium that lines the heart chambers
- 14. _______ connect each atrium to corresponding ventricle
- 15. junctions between the cells are called _______
- 17. dense connective tissue that protects the heart
- 18. pumping chambers
- 19. the medial cavity of the thorax
- 20. inner layer of serous pericardium, outermost layer of heart wall
- 21. delivers blood to the right atrium from upper parts of body
- 22. outer layer of the serous pericardium
- 24. the layers surrounding the heart chanbers
- 26. _______ keep the blood going in the correct direction
- 27. delivers blood to the right atrium from lower parts of body
- 29. delivers blood to the right atrium draining from the myocardium
- 30. the outermost layer of the pericardium
Down
- 1. right AV valve, three flaps
- 3. left AV valve, two flaps
- 4. ventricles are separated by _______
- 6. hold things together
- 8. passage of the oxygenated blood from the left ventricle through the body, providing oxygen and nutrients, and back to the right atrium
- 9. atria are separated by the _______
- 11. second layer of the pericardium
- 12. type of semilunar valve
- 16. connect ventricles and arteries that stem from them and prevent blood that is leaving from flowing back into ventricle
- 17. passage of the blood from the right ventricle through the lungs and back to the left atrium
- 23. largest artery in the body
- 25. dense network of connective tissue fiber that provides structural support and insulates electrical activity
- 26. muscular organ that pumps blood through the circulatory system
- 28. allow for ions to pass through