The Heart
Across
- 2. first branches off of aorta supply blood to heart muscle
- 4. too much of this electrolyte increases heart rate
- 5. location of the heart in the thoracic cavity
- 7. diagnostic test used to assess the electrical activity for diagnosing arrhythmias
- 9. contraction of heart muscle
- 10. heart's pacemaker where rate of 60-100 is set
- 12. heart rate less than 60 beats per minute
- 14. how cells in cardiac muscle are linked
- 15. risk factors for heart disease which cannot be changed
- 17. heart rate greater than 100 beats per minute
- 18. nervous system which causes increased heart rate and contraction force when stimulated
- 20. volume of blood pumped by each ventricle in a minute
- 21. thickest layer of the heart/heart muscle
Down
- 1. largest heart chamber with thickest wall to pump blood out to entire body
- 3. difference between systolic and diastolic blood pressure readings
- 6. valve located between left atrium and left ventricle
- 8. too much of this electrolyte can slow the heart rate
- 11. valve located between right atrium and right ventricle
- 13. hormone which causes increased heart rate and cardiac output
- 16. relaxation of the heart muscle
- 19. keeps blood from flowing back into left ventricle