The Heart

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Across
  1. 5. excessive pressure in the blood vessels
  2. 6. sudden loss of one or more brain functions.
  3. 9. device implanted to maintain an adequate heartrate
  4. 11. upper chamber of the heart, bounded by a thinwall,which receives blood from the circulatorysystem
Down
  1. 1. One of the vessels with diverging branches which,starting from the heart's ventricles, distributeblood throughout the body
  2. 2. Vessel that carries blood from the organs and muscles to the heart.
  3. 3. Beating of the arteries produced by successivewaves of blood projected from the heart
  4. 4. Membrane enveloping the heart and the origin ofthe large vessels.
  5. 7. Each of the two lower compartments of the heart,separated by a partition.
  6. 8. Central organ of the circulatory system
  7. 10. the body's largest artery