Circulatory System

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Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 4. A minute vein continuous with a capillary (6)
  2. 5. A blood vessel that carries blood from the heart to the body (6)
  3. 6. Any chamber that is connected to other chambers or passageways (6)
  4. 8. Any of the minute blood vessels connecting arterioles with venules (plural) (11)
  5. 9. Relating to or affecting the lungs (9)

Down

  1. 1. Organ that pumps blood around the body (5)
  2. 2. The contraction of the chambers of the heart to drive blood into the aorta and pulmonary artery (7)
  3. 3. A chamber of the heart that receives blood from an atrium and pumps it to the arteries (9)
  4. 4. A blood vessel that carries blood from the capillaries toward the heart (4)
  5. 7. The large trunk artery that carries blood from the left ventricle of the heart to branch arteries (5)