Across
- 2. one of the four chambers of the heart, receives blood full of oxygen from the lungs and then empties the blood
- 3. type of blood vessel that return deoxygenated blood from your organs back to your heart
- 6. most anterior of the four heart chambers. It receives deoxygenated blood
- 8. an enlarged heart
- 9. one of three types of vertebrate muscles
- 11. meaning upon or on
- 16. hickest of the heart's chambers and is responsible for pumping oxygenated blood to tissues all over the body.
- 19. a small branch of an artery leading into capillaries
- 20. main artery of the body
- 22. carries deoxygenated blood from the right ventricle to the lungs
- 23. right upper chamber of the heart
- 24. a very small vein, especially one collecting blood from the capillaries
- 25. high blood pressure
Down
- 1. the great venous trunks that return deoxygenated blood from the systemic circulation to the right atrium of the heart
- 4. meaning “heart"
- 5. any of the muscular-walled tubes forming part of the circulation system by which blood (mainly that which has been oxygenated) is conveyed from the heart to all parts of the body
- 7. a graphic outline of the heart's movement
- 10. meaning muscle
- 12. bottom part of the heart
- 13. A ballooning and weakened area in an artery.
- 14. top of the heart
- 15. any of the fine branching blood vessels that form a network between the arterioles and venules
- 17. meaning inner or within
- 18. veins that transfer oxygenated blood from the lungs to the heart
- 21. large vein that carries the deoxygenated blood from the lower and middle body into the right atrium of the heart