Across
- 3. Natural pacemaker of the heart.
- 6. Connective tissue that allows blood to pass through but not back.
- 7. Blood clotting following injury.
- 9. Heart muscle that can also produce electrical impulses.
- 13. Transport O2.
- 17. Caused by leaking valves. Whooshing sound.
- 18. Double pump.
- 19. Abnormally high RBC count.
Down
- 1. Takes blood away from the heart.
- 2. Tissue death will occur if blockage is not resolved quickly.
- 4. Thickening of the heart muscle wall decreasing ventricular space
- 5. Reduced RBC caused by low iron.
- 8. Fluid connective tissue.
- 10. Indicate relaxing and resetting of the ventricles.
- 11. Important organ for maintaining blood supply. Filters out deformed and aging RBC's from circulation.
- 12. Mesh wire placed to keep an artery open.
- 14. Flow of blood from the heart to the rest of the body and back.
- 15. Sound heard when tricuspids and mitral valves close.
- 16. Mixture of H20, electrolytes, and proteins that help in transporting lipids, forming antibodies, and blood clotting.