Across
- 5. A hollow muscular organ that is the at the center of the circulatory system.
- 7. The name for the chambers that pump blood out of the heart.
- 8. The pair of organs where the exchange of carbon dioxide and oxygen take place.
- 10. The kind of blood that anyone can receive in a transfusion.
- 13. A protein that contains iron and binds chemically to oxygen.
- 14. The last name of the scientist who discovered blood types.
- 15. The part of the blood that form blood clots.
- 17. The largest vein in your body.
- 19. This makes up the middle layer of arteries and veins.
- 22. This is what the inner surface of blood vessels is made of.
- 23. The tiniest blood vessels that are only one layer thick.
Down
- 1. The type of muscle that makes up the heart.
- 2. The part of the blood that fights disease.
- 3. The muscular wall that separates the two sides of the heart.
- 4. There are four of these in the heart and they keep blood from flowing backwards.
- 6. The blood vessels that carry deoxygenated blood to the heart.
- 9. The part of the blood that carries oxygen.
- 11. Blood is this type of tissue.
- 12. The largest artery in your body.
- 15. The liquid part of the blood.
- 16. The blood vessels that carry oxygenated blood away from the heart.
- 18. The name for the chambers that receive blood into the heart.
- 20. The name of the valve between the left atrium and the left ventricle.
- 21. Fluid that has leaked out of the circulatory system.
