Blood & Cardiovascular Assignment Part 1
Across
- 1. suffix meaning "that which produces"
- 5. combining form meaning "granules"
- 6. blood pressure
- 7. suffix meaning "to reduce, destroy, separate, break down"
- 9. suffix meaning "carrying, transmission"
- 12. Widening of the arterial wall
- 16. suffix meaning "to stop, control,place"
- 18. combining form meaning "base, opposite of acid"
- 19. normal sinus rhythm
- 21. suffix meaning "development, formation"
- 23. combining form meaning "varied, irregular"
- 24. combining form meaning "same, equal"
- 26. suffix meaning "blood condition"
- 27. are large elastic vessels which lead directly from the heart carrying blood rich in oxygen
- 28. Regular rate and rhythm of heart
- 29. contractions of the heart up to 300 beats per minute. These are regular but exremely fast contractions.
- 30. suffix meaning "attraction for"
- 31. abnormal heart rhythms
- 33. suffix meaning "condition of cells, slight increase n numbers"
- 34. combining form meaning "blood"
- 35. combining form meaning "neither; neutral; neutrophil"
- 36. combining form meaning "color"
Down
- 2. combining form meaning "red"
- 3. Lack of mature erythrocytes caused by the inability to absorb vitamin B12 into blood.
- 4. suffix meaning "protein"
- 8. suffix meaning "embryonic; immature cell"
- 10. combining form meaning "nucleus"
- 11. the type that transports blood to the lungs and back to the heart.
- 13. the type that transports blood throughout the body except for the lungs
- 14. where there is a problem with the right or left ventricle of the heart
- 15. this is a reduction in the plasma clotting factor (factor VIII). The result is that the patient bleeds for a longer period of time.
- 16. combining form meaning "iron"
- 17. combining form meaning "shape, form"
- 20. this is a reduction in erythrocytes or hemoglobin in the blood
- 22. combining form meaning "coagulation (clotting)
- 25. suffix meaning "removal"
- 30. suffix meaning "eat, swallow"
- 32. suffix meaning "formation"