The Heart
Across
- 3. ventricle, responsible for pumping oxygenated blood to tissues all over the body
- 4. the internal cavity is divided into how many chambers?
- 5. main artery that carries blood away from your heart to the rest of your body
- 8. carries oxygenated blood from heart to the body
- 11. cava, large vein that carries deoxygenated blood to the right atrium
- 13. carry blood away from the body and exchange nutrients waste and oxygen with tissues at the cellular level.
- 14. atruim, receives deoxygenated blood from systemic veins
Down
- 1. middle layer of the heart
- 2. one of the small branches of an artery especially one that connects with capillaries
- 3. atruim, receives oxygenated blood from pulmonary veins
- 6. system, the system that circulates blood and lymph through the body consisting of the heart blood vessels blood lymph and the lymphatic vessels and glands.
- 7. carries deoxygenated blood back to the heart
- 9. the inner layer of the heart
- 10. a four-chambered muscular organ, shaped and sized roughly like a man's closed fist
- 12. The outer layer of the heart wall