Across
- 4. heart chamber that receives blood into the heart and drives it into a ventricle, or chamber, for pumping blood away from the heart.
- 5. an apparatus used to control heart fibrillation by application of an electric current to the chest wall or heart.
- 8. the main artery of the body, supplying oxygenated blood to the circulatory system.
- 10. any of the fine branching blood vessels that form a network between the arterioles and venules.
- 11. A valve is a device or natural object that regulates, directs or controls the flow of a fluid
- 12. a loss of blood flow to part of the brain, which damages brain tissue
- 13. A blood vessel that carries blood from the heart to tissues and organs in the body.
Down
- 1. any of the tubes forming part of the blood circulation system of the body, carrying in most cases oxygen-depleted blood toward the heart.
- 2. a rhythmical throbbing of the arteries as blood is propelled through them, typically as felt in the wrists or neck.
- 3. a medical procedure involving repeated compression of a patient's chest, performed in an attempt to restore the blood circulation and breathing of a person who has suffered cardiac arrest.
- 6. a medical instrument for listening to the action of someone's heart or breathing, typically having a small disk-shaped resonator that is placed against the chest, and two tubes connected to earpieces.
- 7. a partition separating two chambers, such as that between the nostrils or the chambers of the heart.
- 9. The vena cava has two parts: the superior vena cava and the inferior vena cava.