Cardiovascular System
Across
- 3. fluid that carries nutrients, oxygen, and other substances around the body
- 4. Coronary Artery Bypass Graft
- 6. muscular layer of heart wall that contracts to pump blood
- 7. intravenous
- 8. hypertension
- 11. suffix meaning process of cutting
- 12. combining form meaning heart or crown
- 14. combining form meaning fatty substance
- 17. instrument used for listening to the heart or lungs
- 20. tool used to look at the vessels
- 21. suffix meaning inflammation
- 23. thin inner layer of heart wall that lines each chamber
- 25. diabetes mellitus
- 26. portable ECG machine worn over a few days
- 28. suffix meaning to control or place
- 29. combining form meaning vessel
- 30. when pericardial sac around heart is inflamed
- 31. prefix meaning around
- 32. disorder when arteries surrounding the heart start narrowing
- 34. double layered sac surrounding the heart
- 35. suffix meaning hardening
Down
- 1. test using ultrasound to look at heart and vessels
- 2. when veins are swollen or dilated
- 5. carry oxygenated blood away from the heart
- 9. muscle that pumps blood
- 10. carry deoxygenated blood toward the heart
- 13. suffix meaning chest
- 15. machine used to measure pressure, specifically blood pressure
- 16. outer layer of heart wall
- 18. also known as high blood pressure
- 19. prefix meaning slow
- 22. prefix meaning fast
- 24. also known as heart attack
- 27. when the heart completely stops
- 29. atrial fibrillation
- 33. connect arteries and veins