Cardiovascular System
Across
- 3. history of
- 4. complaint of
- 6. type of blood vessel that return deoxygenated blood from your organs back to your heart
- 8. as needed
- 9. Damage to the brain from interruption of its blood supply
- 14. monitor with a portable ECG machine
- 15. organ that pumps the blood through the circulatory system
- 16. uses heart rate data to predict and prevent heart disease
- 18. instrument to measure pressure
- 20. increased pressure in the blood vessels
- 22. type of muscle tissue that forms the heart
- 24. status post
- 25. process of cutting
Down
- 1. carry oxygen and nutrients away from your heart, to your body's tissues
- 2. checks how your heart's chambers and valves are pumping blood through your heart
- 5. they perform the exchange of materials between the blood and tissue cells
- 7. slow
- 10. plug or blockage
- 11. diagnostic test that uses x-rays to take pictures of your blood vessels
- 12. when the pericardial sac around the heart is inflamed
- 13. condition is caused by fat, like cholesterol, building up on the walls of the arteries
- 17. condition in which an artery has a weakened wall, causing it to swell, like a balloon
- 19. inflammation
- 21. inner
- 23. nothing to be taken by mouth