Across
- 2. vessels blood vessels form a closed system for the blood flow
- 7. the iron containing protein of the red blood cells; serves to carry oxygen from the lungs to the tissue
- 8. circulation gas exchange occurs at lung capilary beds
- 11. capillaries connect artieries with venules, the smallest veins
- 12. the heart is a muscular organ often called the "pump" of the body
- 14. largest artery of the body; carries blood away from the body
- 15. system a system pertanining to the heart and lungs
Down
- 1. circulation gas exchange occurs at capillary beds of all body tissue
- 3. oxygenated blood is carried to the left part of the heart by the pulmonary veins
- 4. blood flows through the circulatory system often called a tissue because it contains many different kind of cells
- 5. blood deoxygenated blood arrives In the lungs
- 6. arteries divides into a right and left coronary artery to carry blood to the myocardium of the heart
- 9. veins are blood vessels that carry blood back to the heart
- 10. arrhythmia are abnormal heart rhymes and can be mild to life threatening
- 13. arteries can carry blood away from the heart