Across
- 2. Exchanges gases and nutrients with tissues
- 4. Artery that supplies oxygenated blood to myocardium
- 6. Transports blood away from heart
- 7. Returns oxygenated blood from lungs to heart
- 8. Liquid connective tissue
- 12. Keeps blood flowing through the heart
- 13. Red blood cells
- 15. Caused by blood turbulence as valves close
- 17. The pump of the heart
- 18. Vein that returns deoxygenated blood from the myocardium to the right atrium
- 20. Thick, straw-colored liquid of the blood
- 21. Superior heart chambers
- 23. Smallest vessels
Down
- 1. Large artery that carries blood from heart to lungs
- 2. One full heartbeat
- 3. White blood cells that help with immunity
- 5. Inferior chambers of the heart
- 9. Double-membranous sac surrounding the heart
- 10. pressure Forces exerted on the walls of vessels
- 11. Amount of blood pumped by left ventricle in 1 minute
- 12. Smallest veins
- 14. Number of cardiac cycles performed in 1 minute
- 16. Largest artery
- 19. Largest vein that returns blood to the right atrium
- 22. Oxygen-carrying red molecule