cardiovascular system
Across
- 3. Emergency procedure involving chest compression and sometimes rescue breaths.
- 4. Ultrasound test that creates images of the heart.
- 5. Abbreviation for electrocardiogram.
- 7. Buildup of plaque inside the arteries.
- 9. Abbreviation for coronary artery disease.
- 10. Combining from meaning artery.
- 11. Largest artery in the body.
- 13. Word root meaning heart.
- 14. condition involving low hemoglobin or too few healthy red blood cells.
- 15. Blood vessels that carries blood away from the heart.
- 16. Instrument used to measure blood pressure.
- 18. Formation of blood clot inside a blood vessel.
- 22. medical term for persistently high blood pressure.
Down
- 1. Tiny blood vessel where gases and nutrients are exchanged.
- 2. Abnormal rhythm of the heartbeat.
- 4. Test that records the heart's electrical activity.
- 6. Muscular organ that pumps blood throughout the body.
- 8. Instrument used to listen to heart sounds.
- 12. combining form meaning blood.
- 14. Imaging test used to view blood vessels.
- 15. Word root meaning vessel.
- 17. Blood vessel that carries blood towards the heart.
- 19. Abbreviation for blood pressure.
- 20. Combining form meaning vein.
- 21. Abbreviation for myocardial infarction,commonly called a heart attack.