Cardiovascular System
Across
- 4. a diagnostic imaging
- 5. blood vessels
- 6. carries blood to the heart from tissue / organs
- 7. abbreviation for echocardiography
- 8. pertaining to
- 11. delicate blood vessels that exist throughout your body
- 12. - the middle of something
- 17. high blood pressure as a result of increased pressure in the blood vessels
- 18. beats per minute
- 20. a bulging / weakened area in the wall of a blood vessel
- 22. blood
Down
- 1. A circulatory condition in which narrowed blood vessels reduce blood flow to the limbs.
- 2. a lab analysis of things that may be found in your blood
- 3. a test to show how the heart works during physical activity
- 4. makes up the thick middle layer of the heart
- 5. a scan that shows blood flow through arteries / veins
- 9. cardiac arrest
- 10. happens when there is a loss of blood flow to part of the brain
- 13. a recording of the heart's electric activity
- 14. lack of blood flow to part of the body
- 15. jugular venous pulse
- 16. to be against or the opposite
- 18. blood pressure
- 19. heart
- 21. organ that pumps blod through the body