Cardiovascular System

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  1. 1. fast, rapid
  2. 4. The thick, muscular wall of the heart
  3. 5. Abbreviation for blocked coronary arteries
  4. 8. hardening and narrowing of the arteries due to plaque build up
  5. 11. pertaining to vein
  6. 13. pressure cuff Tool used to measure systolic and diastolic pressure
  7. 15. Smallest blood vessel where gas and nutrients exchange occurs
  8. 16. A flexible tube inserted into a vessel, often for angioplasty
  9. 18. Blood flow to the brain is blocked and a vessel ruptures
  10. 19. slow
  11. 22. Abbreviation for a recording of the heart’s electrical activity
  12. 24. infarction medical term for heart attack due to lack of blood flow
  13. 26. An abnormal heart rhythm
  14. 28. Pertaining to the heart
  15. 29. Abbreviation for a heart attack due to
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  1. 2. Elevated blood pressure
  2. 3. Pertaining to a vessel or blood vessel
  3. 5. Emergency procedure combining chest compressions and rescue breathing
  4. 6. Lower chamber of the heart that pumps blood out
  5. 7. The protective sac enclosing the heart
  6. 8. A balloon-like bulge in the wall of artery
  7. 9. hardening
  8. 10. pertaining to blood
  9. 12. Uses sound waves to create moving picture of the heart
  10. 14. Test that records the electrical activity of the heart
  11. 17. Ultrasound that measures blood flow velocity
  12. 19. Abbreviation for the force of blood against artery walls
  13. 20. Instrument used to listen to heart sounds
  14. 21. Cava The large vein that returns deoxygenated blood to the right atrium
  15. 23. The body’s largest artery
  16. 25. Abbreviation for the heart’s inability to pump blood efficiently
  17. 27. Upper chamber of the heart that receives blood