Cardiovascular system
Across
- 2. dyspnea on exertion
- 4. Extremely small vessels that form a network to connect arterioles and venules, allowing for the exchange of oxygen, nutrients, and waste with the tissues
- 6. Procedure using x-ray dye and a tiny tube called a catheter
- 8. A four-chambered muscular organ that pumps blood throughout the body
- 9. shortness of breath
- 11. A suffix meaning small
- 12. Condition in which an artery has a weakened wall, causing it to swell, like a balloon
- 14. Condition in which the heart is not efficiently pumping from the left ventricle, causing reduced blood flow
- 15. Made up of red blood cells, white blood cells, platelets, and plasma, and it transports oxygen, nutrients, and waste products
- 16. nursing care plan
- 17. hypertension
- 18. A prefix meaning around
- 19. Occurs when a part of the heart doesn’t get the blood flow it needs
- 20. A complete stopping of the heart
- 23. A root word meaning blood
Down
- 1. Uses ultrasound to look at blood going through blood vessels to determine if they are narrowed or have a thrombus
- 3. A root word meaning vessel
- 5. Disorder in which there is a narrowing in the arteries surrounding the heart
- 7. Vessels that carry oxygenated blood away from the heart to the rest of the body
- 8. Portable device that produces an electrocardiogram once several electrodes have been connected to the chest
- 10. A root word meaning heart
- 12. X-ray dye called contrast is injected into blood vessels to diagnose things like narrowing (stenosis) or aneurysms
- 13. Vessels that return deoxygenated blood from the body back to the heart
- 21. atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease
- 22. Way to measure blood pressure.