cardiac terminologies

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Across
  1. 1. A medicine that prevents blood clotting; also known as a blood thinner
  2. 3. A sac-like protrusion from a blood vessel or the heart, often resulting from a weakening of the vessel wall or heart muscle
  3. 5. The elimination or removal of tissue, often used to treat abnormal heart rhythms
  4. 9. Heart Disease: Heart disease that arises after birth, usually due to infection or fatty deposits in the heart’s arteries
  5. 10. The inability to speak, write, or understand language due to brain injury or disease
  6. 12. The ring around a heart valve where the valve leaflet merges with the heart muscle
  7. 13. A nonsurgical technique that temporarily inflates a tiny balloon inside an artery to treat diseased arteries
  8. 14. Cachexia: Muscle and weight loss caused by severe heart disease, related to depressed cardiac output in end-stage heart failure
Down
  1. 2. (or Dysrhythmia): An abnormal heartbeat
  2. 4. An antiarrhythmic medicine used to treat irregular heart rhythms.
  3. 6. The largest artery in the body, responsible for receiving oxygenated blood from the heart and delivering it to the body and brain
  4. 7. (Angina Pectoris): Chest pain that occurs when an area of the heart muscle does not receive enough oxygen-rich blood
  5. 8. Arrest: The stopping of the heartbeat, often associated with coronary heart disease.
  6. 9. Valve: The valve that regulates blood flow from the heart into the aorta2.
  7. 11. An x-ray technique that visualizes the coronary arteries by injecting dye