Circulatory System

4. Chest pain due to an inadequate supply of oxygen to the heart muscle
5. the colorless fluid part of blood, or lymph, in which corpuscles or fat globules are suspended
7. carries oxygenated blood from the left ventricle, through the arteries, to the capillaries in the tissues of the body
8. a large vein carrying deoxygenated blood into the heart
11. the phase of the heartbeat when the heart muscle contracts and pumps blood from the chambers into the arteries
14. any of various membranous structures, especially in the heart, veins, and lymph ducts, that function to close temporarily a passage or orifice, permitting movement of a fluid in one direction only
16. the phase of the heartbeat when the heart muscle relaxes and allows the chambers to fill with blood
17. A type of blood cell that is made in the bone marrow and found in the blood and lymph tissue
18. a hollow part or cavity in an organ
20. each of the two upper cavities of the heart from which blood is passed to the ventricles
22. another term for heart attack
23. the pressure of the blood in the circulatory system

1. the passage of blood from the right side of the heart through arteries to the lungs where it picks up oxygen and is returned to the left side of the heart by veins
2. a partition separating two chambers
3. A type of blood cell that is made in the bone marrow and found in the blood
6. a hollow muscular organ that pumps the blood through the circulatory system
9. the main artery of the body supplying oxygenated blood to the circulatory system
10. the red liquid that circulates in the arteries and veins
11. similar to the size of a fist
12. a small colorless disk-shaped cell fragment without a nucleus, found in large numbers in blood
13. abnormally high blood pressure
15. any of the fine branching blood vessels that form a network between the arterioles and venules
19. Also known as blood vessels
21. muscular-walled tubes forming part of the circulation system by which blood is conveyed from the heart to all parts of the body