Cardiovascular System

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Across
  1. 6. Medical term for hardening of body tissue
  2. 8. This bundle is the same as the bundle of His
  3. 10. This portion of your blood pressure is represented as the bottom number
  4. 12. This happens when the mitral valve protrudes into the left atrium when the ventricle contracts
  5. 14. When your heart is contracting
  6. 18. This is when there is backflow of blood between the left ventricle and atrium
  7. 20. Another name for the visceral pericardium
  8. 21. The upper 2 chambers of the heart are called the left and right ____
  9. 22. The SA (sinoatrial) node, is best known for being the ___ of the heart
  10. 24. The lower 2 chambers of the heart are called the left and right __
  11. 27. Deoxygenated blood pumped from the right side of the heart to the lungs is what kind of circulation?
  12. 28. Separates the left and right sections of the heart
Down
  1. 1. Medical term for narrowing
  2. 2. This type of circulation is from blood being pumped from the left side of the heart to be supplied to all body tissue
  3. 3. This vein is the only vein in the body that carries oxygenated blood, and it carries it to the heart
  4. 4. During this, the ventricles are contracting (seen on an EKG)
  5. 5. This valve separates the left atrium and left ventricle
  6. 7. Cardiac ___ is when a thin tube goes into the heart to collect helpful information about its structures, coronary arteries, and great vessels
  7. 9. This is the sac that hold the heart
  8. 11. Which portal’s circulation allows for blood from your other organs (spleen, gallbladder, pancreas, stomach, and intestines) to be taken to the liver for filtration?
  9. 12. These fibers send electrical impulses to ventricular myocardial cells, causing contraction
  10. 13. The pulmonary artery is the only artery in the body that carries this type of blood
  11. 15. Valves in the heart that lead to processes outside of the body (located between ventricles and the arteries)
  12. 16. The waiting/resting stage of cardiac cells before an electronic impulse hits them
  13. 17. Atrial ___ is when there is a rapid, regular rhythm in your atria
  14. 19. Elevated heart rate
  15. 23. Inner lining of the heart
  16. 25. The ___ valve separates the right atrium and ventricle
  17. 26. This volume is the amount of blood pushed from the L ventricle during each contraction