Cardiovascular system
Across
- 2. a portable ECG machine that the patient wears over a few days
- 8. abbreviation for congestive heart failure
- 12. condition in which an artery has a weakened wall
- 14. the thin inner layer that lines each chamber
- 15. combining form meaning heart
- 16. the outermost layer of the heart muscle
- 17. The wall between the right and left ventricles
- 19. abbreviation for automated external defibrillator
- 20. The wall between the right and left atria
- 21. abbreviation for coronary artery bypass graft
- 24. a test that uses ultrasound to look at the heart and its vessels.
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- 1. instrument to measure pressure
- 3. procedure using x-ray dye and a tiny tube called a catheter
- 4. a condition in which the heart is not efficiently pumping from the left ventricle, causing reduced blood flow
- 5. another name for a heart attack
- 6. combining form meaning heart or crown
- 7. combining form meaning pulse
- 9. abbreviation for implantable cardioverter defibrillator
- 10. combining form meaning blood vessel
- 11. the middle, muscular layer that contracts to pump blood
- 13. condition in which the pericardial sac around the heart is inflamed
- 18. combining form meaning chest
- 22. abbreviation for dyspnea on exertion
- 23. a complete stopping of the heart
- 25. a procedure done in a specialized area of radiology