Across
- 4. blood vessels that carry oxygen-poor blood to your heart
- 7. one of your four heart valves mitralvalve one of your four heart valves
- 8. heart chamber that receives blood into the heart and drives it into a ventricle, or chamber, for pumping blood away from the heart
- 10. made up of blood vessels that carry blood away from and towards the heart
- 11. parts of your heart that act like doors
Down
- 1. muscular chamber that pumps blood out of the heart and into the circulatory system
- 2. the smallest and most numerous of the blood vessels
- 3. blood vessels that distribute oxygen-rich blood to your entire body
- 5. the liquid component of your blood that contributes to 55% of your blood's total volume
- 6. the triangular wall of cardiac tissue that separates the left and right ventricles (i.e., the lower chambers) of the heart.
- 9. the smallest structural and functional unit of an organism