Cardiovascular System
Across
- 4. Short for blood pressure
- 5. A test that checks your heart’s electricity
- 7. Another term for a heart attack
- 8. Small vessels where nutrients are exchanged
- 10. Short for a heart attack
- 11. Prefix meaning "blood."
- 15. A test that uses sound waves to look at your heart
- 19. Short for heart rate.
- 20. The body’s main blood-pumping organ
- 21. Suffix meaning "inflammation."
- 22. Root word for "vessels."
- 24. A tool doctors use to listen to your heartbeat
- 25. Another name for ECG
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- 1. A tool that squeezes your arm to measure blood pressure
- 2. Another name for high blood pressure.
- 3. An X-ray to look at blood vessels
- 6. Prefix meaning "heart."
- 9. Vessels that take blood away from the heart
- 12. When the heart beats unevenly
- 13. Vessels that return blood to the heart
- 14. Suffix meaning "a picture or record."
- 16. When the heart doesn’t pump blood well.
- 17. Abbreviation for heart failure
- 18. The largest blood vessel in the body
- 23. Clogging of blood vessels