cardiovascular system
Across
- 2. thin flexible tube is threaded through a blood vessel to the heart
- 4. ventricular tachycardia
- 8. meaning muscle contraction
- 11. This condition is a disease of the blood vessels
- 12. shortness of breath
- 16. test that uses X-rays to create detailed 3D images
- 18. meaning destruion
- 19. myocardial infarction
- 20. Also known as high blood pressure
- 21. An ultrasound of the heart
- 22. A muscular organ that pumps blood
- 23. meaning removal
- 25. records the heart's electrical activity
Down
- 1. any cardiovascular disease process involving one or more of the four valves of the heart
- 3. uses a magnetic field and radio waves
- 5. Tiny blood vessels that connect arteries and veins
- 6. This occurs when the heart muscle can't pump blood as well as it should
- 7. do not resuscitate
- 9. These are problems with the heart's electrical conduction system
- 10. Blood vessels that carry deoxygenated blood
- 13. This is the liquid tissue that transports oxygen
- 14. meaning slow
- 15. hypertension
- 17. Blood vessels that carry oxygenated blood
- 24. meaning beyond