Blood Pressure Crossword
Across
- 5. Upper chambers of the heart that receive blood
- 6. Structure that delays electrical signal before ventricles contract
- 8. Condition of abnormally low blood pressure
- 11. Top number of blood pressure representing ventricular contraction
- 12. Test that records electrical activity of the heart
- 13. Condition of chronically high blood pressure
- 14. Blood vessels that return blood to the heart under lower pressure
- 15. Lower chambers of the heart that pump blood out
- 16. Blood vessels that carry blood away from the heart under high pressure
- 17. Electrical activation of heart cells leading to contraction
Down
- 1. Total volume of blood pumped per minute
- 2. Bottom number of blood pressure representing ventricular relaxation
- 3. One complete sequence of heart contraction and relaxation
- 4. Natural pacemaker of the heart that initiates heartbeat
- 7. Complex pattern seen on an ECG tracing
- 9. Amount of blood pumped by one ventricle per beat
- 10. Return of heart cells to resting electrical state
- 18. Pressure wave felt in arteries with each heartbeat