Cardiac Crossword

3. What are the connective tissue cords called that prevent the atrioventricular valves form everting during ventricular systole?
6. Heart rate multiplied by stroke volume determines the _____.
8. Ventricular contractility is altered through the activity of which cardiovascular centre in the medulla oblongata?
10. Name the groove that circles the heart between the atria and the ventricles.
13. The second heart sound, dub, is generated by the closing of the _____ valves.
15. Name the volume of blood ejected form ne ventricle in one beat.
18. Identify the valve located at the outlet of the left ventricle.

1. Blood returns to the right atrium form the coronary circulation via the _____.
2. Name the body cavity that contains the heart.
4. Which part of the intrinsic conduction system depolarises the ventricular myocardium?
5. The EDV is the volume of blood in the ventricles at the end of ventricular _____.
7. If the pacemaker of the heart fails, which part of the conduction system takes over?
9. Which heart chambers are filled during phase 1 of the cardiac cycle?
11. Name the vein that drains deoxygenated blood from the anterior ventricles.
12. Blood exits the right ventricle via which blood vessel?
14. The volume of blood remaining in the ventricles at the end of ventricular systole (abbreviation).
16. The membrane that lines the heart and covers the valves is called the _____.
17. Identify an alternative name for the bicuspid valve.
19. The tricuspid valve is found between the atrium and the ventricle on the _____ side of the heart.
20. Reduced parasympathetic stimulation of the heart will _____ heart rate.