The Heart
Across
- 5. The shortening and thickening of functioning muscle or muscle fiber.
- 6. Blood with a low O2 saturation
- 7. Carries blood from the left side of the heart to the arteries of all limbs and organs except the lungs.
- 8. A vessel in which blood flows toward the heart.
- 10. The muscular elastic tubes that form a branching system and that carry blood away from the heart to the cells, tissues, and organs of the body.
Down
- 1. The vessels going to and from the lungs are the ..... artery and vein.
- 2. Either of two heart valves through which blood flows from the atria to the ventricles; prevents return of blood to the atrium
- 3. The contraction, or period of contraction, of the heart
- 4. The lower chambers of the heart.
- 5. The strands of tendon that anchor the cusps of the valves to the muscles of the ventricles of the heart.
- 9. Either of the upper chambers of the heart