The Heart: What do you know?
Across
- 4. Persistently elevated arterial blood pressure
- 6. The valve preventing backflow from the right ventricle to the right atrium
- 12. A measure of the time between successive ventricular depolarisations on an ECG (2 letters)
- 13. The arterial pressure when the heart is relaxed between beats
- 15. The body system that rapidly adjusts heart rate and vessel diameter to regulate blood pressure (3 words)
- 17. The valve that allows blood to leave the left ventricle into the aorta
- 19. A regular sequence of electrical activity producing a normal heartbeat (2 words)
- 20. The ECG interval between ventricular repolarisation and the next atrial depolarisation (2 letters)
Down
- 1. The ECG wave representing atrial depolarisation (2 words)
- 2. The structure that delays electrical impulses between atria and ventricles (2 words)
- 3. The heart’s natural pacemaker that initiates each heartbeat (2 words)
- 5. The heart chamber that pumps deoxygenated blood to the lungs (2 words)
- 7. The reflex that rapidly stabilises blood pressure when standing up (2 words)
- 8. A heart rate that is slower than normal
- 9. The phase of the cardiac cycle when the heart muscle relaxes and fills
- 10. The total volume of blood pumped by the heart each minute (2 words)
- 11. The ECG waveform representing ventricular depolarisation (2 words)
- 14. The pressure in the arteries during ventricular contraction
- 16. The volume of blood ejected by a ventricle with each heartbeat (2 words)
- 18. The phase of the cardiac cycle when the heart muscle contracts