Solve these clues to fill the grid.
- A mechanical device that moves fluid or gas by pressure or suction
- 2 Across
- Any of the minute blood vessels connecting arterioles with venules (plural)
- 7 Across
- To draw air into, and expel out of, the lungs
- 10 Across
- Conduit consisting of a long hollow object used to hold and conduct objects or liquids or gases (plural)
- 11 Across
- The motion characteristic of fluids
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- Gas in the air that we need to breathe
- 13 Across
- A joint between the distal end of the radius and the proximal row of carpal bones
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- The rate at which the heart beats
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- A government agency or instrument devoted to the performance of some specific function (plural)
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- Organ that pumps blood around the body
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- A blood vessel that carries blood from the capillaries toward the heart (plural)
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- A blood vessel that carries blood from the heart to the body (plural)
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- Either of two saclike respiratory organs in the chest of vertebrates (plural)
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- Red liquid pumped around the body by the heart
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