Across
- 4. site of the baroreceptors in the neck (2 words)
- 5. conducts the blood (2 words)
- 6. the constriction of blood vessels, which increases blood pressure
- 7. the average arterial pressure during a single cardiac cycle
- 8. integrates inputs from detectors and outputs to effectors (2 words)
- 12. site of baroreceptors just above the heart (2 words)
- 13. an organ or cell that acts in response to a stimulus
Down
- 1. each of the tenth pair of cranial nerves, supplying the heart, lungs, upper digestive tract, and other organs of the chest and abdomen
- 2. the lowest part of the brainstem and containing control centres for the heart and lungs (2 words)
- 3. sensory nerve terminal stimulated by changes in pressure
- 9. a rapid heart rate
- 10. conducting outwards or away from something
- 11. a hollow muscular organ that pumps blood through the circulatory system
- 12. conducting inwards or towards something