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