Across
- 4. Blood vessel that returns deoxygenated blood from your organs back to your heart
- 6. Produces ADH and OXT
- 7. Produce calcitriol and EPO
- 8. Center of your circulatory system that sends oxygen and vital nutrients to your body and carries away unwanted carbon dioxide waste products
- 10. Most common WBC in the bloodstream and a first defense against invaders
- 12. The smallest and most abundant blood vessel
- 14. Phase of the heartbeat in which your heart muscle relaxes and allows the chamber to fill with blood
- 16. Process and capacity to break down food into substances that your body can utilize
- 17. Carry blood away from your heart
Down
- 1. Phase of the heartbeat when the heart muscle contract and pumps blood from the chambers to the arteries
- 2. Part of your respiratory system that plays a major roll in breathing
- 3. filtering unit located in your kidneys
- 5. Makes PTH which helps your body be balanced in Calcium and Phosphorous.
- 9. Destroys invading germs like viruses, bacteria and parasites. Also plays a role in inflammatory response to an allergy
- 11. Contains the anticoagulant heparin and histamine to help with allergens.
- 13. B and T cells used in the immune system
- 15. Insulin and Glucagon play a major roll in this organ.
