Across
- 5. an atrium and a ventricle, connected by a valve.
- 7. sudden loss of one or more brain functions.
- 8. Membrane enveloping the heart and the origin of the large vessels.
- 10. excessive pressure in the blood vessels
- 11. One of the vessels with diverging branches which, starting from the heart's ventricles, distribute blood throughout the body.
Down
- 1. device implanted to maintain an adequate heart rate
- 2. Beating of the arteries produced by successive waves of blood projected from the heart
- 3. Vessel that carries blood from the organs and muscles to the heart.
- 4. Each of the two lower compartments of the heart, separated by a partition.
- 6. upper chamber of the heart, bounded by a thin wall, which receives blood from the circulatory system
- 9. the body's largest artery
- 10. Central organ of the circulatory system