Across
- 3. A small branch of an artery leading into capillaries
- 4. White blood cell with a large, round nucleus
- 6. Blood vessel that transports oxygenated blood to the heart
- 7. Small veins that branch out from capillaries
- 11. valves The atrioventricular valves found at the right side of the heart
- 13. A device used to measure pulse
- 14. Cells in the blood that transport oxygen
- 17. Stage of a heart beat when heart muscles contraction of the artery caused by the ejection of blood from the left side of the heart
Down
- 1. Blood vessels responsible for delivering oxygen to body tissues on a cellular level
- 2. Stage of the cardiac cycle when heart muscles relax
- 5. Circulation where blood passes through the heart twice in one circuit
- 8. Chamber of the heart with the thickest walls
- 9. A pair of valves consisting of three cusps that prevents the flow of blood back into the heart
- 10. White blood cell with a lobed nucleus
- 12. Fragments of cells that assist in clotting blood
- 15. The expansion and contraction
- 16. Blood vessel carrying oxygenated blood away from the heart