Cardiovascular Diseases Crossword Puzzle
Across
- 2. Major blood vessel supplying the heart with oxygen becomes damaged
- 5. inflammation of the heart
- 7. damage in the heart’s valves, walls, chambers, or muscles, excluding the coronary arteries
- 8. a disease where the heart's electrical signals are slowed or blocked, causing a slow or irregular heartbeat
- 9. quicken heart beat
- 12. buildup of lymphatic fluid in the heart
- 15. structural or functional health condition present at birth, often referred to as a birth defect
- 16. where the upper chambers quiver instead of beating effectively
- 17. when the heart fails
- 18. fast heart rate
- 19. inflammation of the pericardium, the thin, sac-like membrane surrounding the heart
Down
- 1. slow heart rate
- 3. 200 inflammatory condition
- 4. involve issues with the heart's upper chambers
- 6. genetic blood disorder where a person inherits two abnormal genes
- 7. when blood flow to part of the brain is blocked
- 10. abnormal heart rhythm
- 11. conditions that affect the blood supply to the brain
- 13. heart's electrical system malfunctions to cause abnormal heart rhythms
- 14. condition where fatty plaque buildup narrows blood vessels outside the heart that effects the heart