how the heart and lungs work vocab

Question 1

to become dry and shrivelled

Answer 1

to wither

Question 2

serving as food

Answer 2

nutrients

Question 3

of the circulation

Answer 3

circulatory

Question 4

cause to diviate

Answer 4

to divert

Question 5

the ability to adjust

Answer 5

adaptability

Question 6

of the muscle

Answer 6

muscular

Question 7

to make less stiff

Answer 7

to relax
relaxing

Question 8

draw together

Answer 8

to contract
contracting

Question 9

small twig of an artery that ends in a capillary

Answer 9

arteriole

Question 10

to become equal

Answer 10

to even out

Question 11

device by wich the flow of a liquid can be controlled

Answer 11

a tap

Question 12

smallest blood vessels

Answer 12

capillaries

Question 13

to be covered with dots

Answer 13

to be dotted

Question 14

minute opening on the surface of the skin

Answer 14

a pore

Question 15

full of veins

Answer 15

venous

Question 16

very small veins

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venules

Question 17

tubes by which blood is conveyed to the heart

Answer 17

veins

Question 18

move rapidly

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to hurtle on

Question 19

muscle between thorax and abdomen

Answer 19

diaphragm

Question 20

circular vault forming roof

Answer 20

dome-like
dome

Question 21

bones of the thorax

Answer 21

rib cage

Question 22

catch breath with open mouth

Answer 22

to gasp out

Question 23

left as a residue

Answer 23

residual

Question 24

to become bigger (balloon)

Answer 24

to inflate

Question 25

to become smaller (balloon)

Answer 25

to deflate

Question 26

making slippery

Answer 26

to lubricate