Cardiovascular System Crossword

What chamber receives blood as it returns from the body cells?
What chamber receives blood from the left atrium and pumps the blood into the aorta for transport to the body cells?
What is the cardiac rest cycle?
Ventricular contraction
A foreign substance circulating in the blood stream
Inflammation of a vein
Another name for platelets
Inadequate number of red blood cells, hemoglobin, or both
An abnormal heart rhythm
Vessel that carries the blood back to the heart
Vessels that carries blood away from the heart
Connect arterioles with venules, the smallest veins
Muscular middle layer of the heart
White blood cells
Carries both oxygen and carbon dioxide
Red blood cells
Hardening or thickening of the arterial walls, rusulting in a loss of elasticity and contractility
Balooning out of, or saclike formation on, an artery wall
Dilated veins that have lost elasticity and decrease blood flow
A malignant disease of the bone marrow or lymph tissue
High blood pressure
When the heart muscles do not beat adequately to supply the blood needs of the body
Inherited disease cause by lack of plasma protein preventing blood from clotting
Receives blood from the right atrium and pumps the blood into the pulmonary artery
receives oxygenated blood from the lungs
Separates the right and left side of the heart
Located between the left atrium and left ventricle
Located between the left ventricle and the aorta
"Pacemaker of the heart"
Occurs when fatty plaques are deposited on the walls of the arteries