The Heart
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- 3. Cells that fight infections
- 4. Heart rate of 40 beats per minute.
- 7. The back flow of blood from one chamber to another.
- 9. Takes deoxgenated blood from the heart to the lungs.
- 12. Also referred to as the mitral valve.
- 14. Also called a myocardial infarction.
- 15. Inflammation of the fluid surrounding the heart.
- 16. Regulates blood entering the right ventricle.
- 19. Alternative name for platelets.
- 22. Regulation type involving neural and hormonal control.
- 23. One of four chambers of the heart.
- 24. Found between the arterioles and venules.
- 25. Cancer of the white blood cells.
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- 1. Refractory period when the cardiac muscle completely insensitive to further stimulation.
- 2. Abnormal heart beat due to valve complications.
- 5. One of two locations facilitating gas exchange.
- 6. One of two portals of entry into the heart for deoxygenated blood.
- 8. Collective name for neutrophil, eosinophils and basophils.
- 10. The serous membrane of smooth outer surface of heart.
- 11. Take blood away from the heart to the body.
- 13. Represents ventricular repolarization.
- 17. Cells that live only for 120 days.
- 18. Smooth inner surface of heart chambers
- 20. Measurement representing the maximum contraction of a blood vessel.
- 21. One of two cardiovascular circuits.