Across
- 3. Smallest blood vessels that connect arteries and veins
- 7. generates electrical impulses continuously and sets the rate of the heart beat
- 8. Chest pain caused by inadequate supply of oxygen to the heart muscle
- 11. Thin walled chambers that receive the blood entering the heart
- 13. separates the right atrium from the right ventricle
- 14. Removed from the body by lungs in exhaled air
- 15. Largest artery in the human body
- 17. When oxygen is removed from the blood, it is considered ______
- 19. Moves blood one way through the heart and prevents the backward flow of blood
- 20. _____ blood carries oxygen and glucose used in respiration of the body’s cells
Down
- 1. medical term for high blood pressure
- 2. Largest vein in the human body
- 4. Spongy air-filled organs on either side of the chest responsible for respiration
- 5. Artery that carries deoxygenated blood from the right side of the heart to the lungs
- 6. During an Adrenaline rush, heart rate and blood pressure ______
- 9. When going from supine to standing, blood pressure will _______
- 10. Separates the left atrium and left ventricle
- 12. thick-walled chambers that forcefully pump blood out of the heart
- 16. Carries low oxygenated blood from the body back to the heart
- 18. Carries oxygen-rich blood from the heart to the rest of the body