Cardiovascular Crossword
Across
- 4. uses very strong magnets and radio waves to create detailed images of your heart on a computer
- 6. used to measure the level of other substances in your blood
- 8. networks of small vessels that perfuse tissues
- 10. specialized body fluid
- 12. an emergency life-saving procedure that is done when someone's breathing or heartbeat has stopped
- 13. abnormal heart rhythm
- 18. when the heat does not get enought blood
- 20. collect blood from capillaries and drain into veins
- 23. history of
- 24. to view
- 25. veins that deliver blood to tissues
Down
- 1. above/over or excessive
- 2. narrowing, blocking, or spasms in a blood vessel
- 3. heart is cut off from oxygen
- 5. An X-ray tube inside the machine rotates around your body and collects images of your heart and chest
- 7. gives a picture of your heart using ultrasound
- 9. disease that makes it head for the heart to pump blood to the rest of the body
- 11. slow
- 14. pumps blood for the body
- 15. intensive care unit
- 16. emergency room
- 17. vessels that return blood to the heart
- 19. under or insufficient
- 21. reads your heart’s electrical impulses. It shows how well your heart is beating.
- 22. surgically remove