Across
- 4. sudden loss of heart function
- 6. blood that carries oxygen is...
- 8. small device that helps normalize someone`s slow heart rate
- 11. large vein that lets blood flow into the right atrium
- 12. contraction or pumping
- 16. volume of blood pumped into the systemic circulation per minute
- 17. exchange gas between tissues and cells
- 19. the main chambers of the heart
- 20. unsynchronized contractions of atria or ventricles
Down
- 1. middle muscular layer of the heart wall
- 2. slowing down of the heart frequency
- 3. receive blood and push it into the ventricles
- 5. process of transferring oxygnated blood to the myocardium
- 7. process of carrying deoxygenated blood to the lungs and oxygenated blood back to the heart
- 9. carry deoxygnated blood to the heart
- 10. largest artery of the heart
- 13. process of carrying oxygenated blood to the capillaries and then deoxygenated blood back to the heart
- 14. opposite of systole
- 15. separates right atrium from right ventricle
- 18. makes the blood appear red