Across
- 5. thin outer layer that covers the heart and has pericardial fluid
- 7. turbulent blood flow causes these sounds
- 9. carries blood from the heart to the body
- 12. leads pacemaker activity and has the fastest action potentials per minute (two words, no space)
- 18. vessels carrying blood from the heart that branch into capillaries
- 20. formed by grouped specialized cells that perform pacemaker activity in the heart
- 21. oxygen-poor blood flows here from the right atrium and gets pumped into the pulmonary artery (two words, no space)
- 22. without this, blood squeezed by contracted skeletal muscle would flow both away and towards the heart (two words, no space)
- 23. a mechanism where the capillary walls only allow plasma to flow through (two words, no space)
- 24. last place in the current flow sequence through the heart wall (two words, no space)
- 26. type of circulation where oxygenated blood is pumped from left chambers to tissues of the body
- 27. thin inner lining of each heart chamber
- 28. oxygenated blood flows here from the right and left pulmonary veins (two words, no space)
- 29. heart relaxes in this period of the cardiac cycle
Down
- 1. depolarization of ventricles is shown in this part of the ECG record (two words, no space)
- 2. abnormally high blood pressure
- 3. mechanoreceptors that sense and respond to changes in average pulse pressure and arterial pressure
- 4. type of circulation where oxygen-poor is pumped from right chambers to the lungs to absorb oxygen
- 6. happens when the net pressure, influencing bulk flow, is positive
- 8. end-diastolic volume minus end-systolic volume (two words, no space)
- 10. the smallest blood vessels
- 11. type of cell that makes up majority of cardiac muscle cells
- 13. one of the four heart valves
- 14. large vessels that serves as a reservoir for oxygen-poor blood and returns it to the heart
- 15. expressed by the pressure gradient divided by the resistance to flow (two words, no space)
- 16. middle cardiac muscle layer of the heart wall
- 17. ability of the heart muscle to generate electrical activity through spontaneous action potentials
- 19. heart contracts in this period of the cardiac cycle
- 25. materials independently move down concentration gradients