Across
- 2. Microscopic blood vessels that connect arterioles with venules
- 8. Transparent, colorless, tissue fluid
- 9. Condition of a rapid heart
- 10. Enlargement of the heart
- 13. Tubelike structures that carry blood throughout the body
- 14. Outer lining covering the heart
Down
- 1. Excision of a vein
- 3. Muscular cone-shaped organ the size of a fist, located behind the sternum and between the lungs.
- 4. Largest artery in the body which originates at the left ventricle
- 5. Condition of a slow heart
- 6. Inflammation of a vein
- 7. Located on the left side of the abdominal cavity between the stomach and diaphragm
- 11. Radiographic image of an artery
- 12. Clear, watery fluid portion of the blood that remains after a clot is formed