Across
- 2. The surface veins on your wrist give this blood a blue hue. It's actually just a darker red color.
- 3. The outer layer of the heart wall but the inner layer of the pericardium.
- 5. The thin lining of the heart chambers and valves.
- 8. Chambers that receive blood from the veins.
- 11. The barrier wall between chambers that prevents mixing of oxygenated and deoxygenated blood.
- 12. An inherited disease where there aren't enough healthy red blood cells to carry oxygen throughout your body.
- 15. Valve located between your left atrium and left ventricle.
- 17. Commonly known as a heart attack, this infarction occurs when blood flow to the heart is blocked.
- 19. Blood is pumped from your left ventricle into the largest artery in your body via what valve?
Down
- 1. Arteries carry this blood from the heart to all over the body.
- 4. The protective sac that surrounds your heart, keeping it lubricated and in place.
- 6. Of the two types of circulation, this type sends red blood from the heart to all areas of the body.
- 7. The valve that allows blood to flow from your right atrium to the right ventricle.
- 9. Also known as high blood pressure.
- 10. When the heart has stopped pumping effectively.
- 13. A cancer that usually begins in the bone marrow and results in high numbers of abnormal blood cells.
- 14. Of the two types of circulation, this one moves blood to the lungs to release carbon dioxide.
- 16. This condition occurs when the number of red blood cells circulating in the body decreases.
- 18. Chambers that pump blood.
