Across
- 4. a crucial heart valve that acts as a one-way door between the heart's main pumping chamber (left ventricle) and the body's largest artery
- 6. a one-way gate in the heart located between the right atrium (upper chamber) and the right ventricle (lower chamber)
- 9. major blood vessel that carries deoxygenated blood from the heart to the lungs for oxygenation
- 10. a partition separating two chambers,the chambers of the heart.
- 12. artery in your lower arm
- 14. carry blood back to heart
- 15. microscopic vessels that carries blood between the arterial and venous vessels
- 16. the muscular tissue of the heart
- 17. the main artery of the body supplying oxygenated blood to the circulatory system In humans it passes over the heart from the left ventricle and runs down in front of the backbone.
- 18. circulates about 5L of blood
- 20. a large vein carrying deoxygenated blood into the heart
Down
- 1. a one-way valve in the heart that regulates the flow of oxygen-poor blood from the right ventricle to the pulmonary artery.
- 2. the valve between the left atrium and the left ventricle of the heart consisting of two tapered cusps.
- 3. beat more than 100,000 times a day
- 5. the amount of times a heart beats
- 7. artery in your foot
- 8. artery in your thigh
- 11. artery in your lower leg
- 13. its pointed tip formed by the left ventricle located in the lower-left chest typically behind the 5th rib space pointing down forward and left
- 19. carry blood away from heart