Blood Vessels Crossword Puzzle

QUESTIONS LIST: arteries: carry blood away from the heart, elastic: _ arteries are those nearest the heart, muscular: _ arteries distribute blood to various parts of organs and living tissues, arterioles: a small branch of an artery leading into capillaries, capillarybed: a network of numerous capillaries formed from true capillaries and/or vascular shunts (2 words), capillaries: the smallest blood vessels, pericytes: cells present at intervals along the walls of capillaries, veins: carry blood toward the heart, venules: a very small veins, venousvalves: structures of the veins preventing the blood backflow (2 words), tunicaintima: innermost layer of an artery or vein (2 words), tunicamedia: layer of the arteries or veins consisting of smooth muscle cells (2 words), tunicaexterna: connective tissue layer, outmost layer of the arteries and veins (2 words), vasoconstriction: the narrowing of blood vessels by small muscles in their walls, vasodilation: when blood vessels in your body widen, vasavasorum: vessels of the vessels (2 words), anastomosis: a surgical procedure that is used to connect vessels to each other, systolic: if a patient bp is 120/80, their _ pressure is 120, diastolic: the _ blood pressure is measured when the heart rests between beats, pulse: the _ pressure is the difference between systolic and diastolic blood pressure, map: the average arterial pressure throughout one cardiac cycle, systole, and diastole, baroreceptor: type of mechanoreceptors allowing for relaying information derived from blood pressure within the autonomic nervous system, syncope: fainting or passing out, edema: swelling caused by too much fluid trapped in the body's tissues.