Across
- 1. Ventricular muscle attached to valve leaflets via chordae tendineae.
- 5. Wider, shorter and more vertical airway prone to foreign body entry.
- 9. Muscular ridge separating smooth and rough right atrium.
- 11. Two-leaflet valve between the left atrium and ventricle.
- 14. Last purely conducting airway.
- 16. Pain-sensitive pleural layer lining the thoracic cavity.
- 17. Opening between the true vocal cords.
- 20. Neurovascular structure lying beneath each rib in the costal groove.
- 22. Elastic cartilage covering the laryngeal inlet during swallowing.
- 24. Airway extending from the cricoid cartilage to the carina.
- 26. Airway immediately distal to the tracheal bifurcation.
- 29. Surface landmark corresponding to the second rib and tracheal bifurcation.
- 30. Diaphragmatic opening transmitting the aorta at T12.
- 32. Cell producing pulmonary surfactant.
- 35. Immune cell responsible for phagocytosis within alveoli.
- 36. Valve separating the right atrium and right ventricle.
- 38. Lowest part of the pleural cavity where fluid accumulates.
- 40. Structures defining the glottic opening.
- 41. Diaphragmatic opening transmitting the oesophagus at T10.
- 42. Primary site of gas exchange.
- 43. Muscle elevating the ribs during inspiration.
- 45. Principal muscle of inspiration.
- 46. Structure that penetrates the cardiac fibrous skeleton.
- 47. Conducting pathway supplying the right ventricle.
- 48. Branch commonly arising from the right coronary artery supplying the RV.
- 49. Bronchus passing beneath the aortic arch.
- 50. Fibrous insertion of the diaphragm.
Down
- 2. Natural pacemaker of the heart, located near the SVC-right atrial junction.
- 3. Conducting tissue located in the triangle of Koch.
- 4. Depression in the interatrial septum marking the fetal foramen ovale.
- 6. Only complete cartilaginous ring of the airway.
- 7. Branch of the left coronary artery running in the atrioventricular groove.
- 8. Vessel usually supplying the AV node in right-dominant circulation.
- 10. Fibrous cords preventing valve prolapse during systole.
- 12. Largest laryngeal cartilage.
- 13. Artery defining coronary dominance.
- 15. Most anterior cardiac valve.
- 18. Muscle mainly active during forced expiration.
- 19. Rapidly conducting fibres responsible for ventricular depolarisation.
- 21. Coronary artery running in the anterior interventricular groove.
- 23. Motor nerve supplying the diaphragm.
- 25. First airway containing alveoli in its walls.
- 27. Main venous drainage of the myocardium.
- 28. Semilunar valve giving rise to the coronary arteries just above its cusps.
- 31. Diaphragmatic opening transmitting the inferior vena cava at T8.
- 33. Conducting pathway dividing into anterior and posterior fascicles.
- 34. Ridge at the tracheal bifurcation, highly sensitive to stimulation.
- 37. Substance reducing alveolar surface tension.
- 39. Pleural layer adherent to the lung surface.
- 44. Thin squamous cell responsible for most gas diffusion.
