Cardiovascular system
Across
- 2. Small thin vessels that connect the arteries and veins
- 4. Apply force to dilate restrictions or unblock arteries
- 5. Small tube inserted into heart to look for heart malfunctions
- 7. Aorta
- 10. Arteriole
- 12. When arteries of the heart don't produce enough oxygen rich blood to the heart
- 16. Used to help guide catheter into CVC
- 18. Pumps blood through circulatory system
- 19. Drug-eluting stent
- 20. Outermost layer of blood vessel
- 23. Narrowing of the valve between lower right heart chamber and the lung arteries
Down
- 1. Send a shock or pulse to the heart to get a normal pulse
- 3. Atrium
- 6. Carry oxygen and nutrients away from the heart to the tissues
- 7. When the heart has an irregular beat
- 8. When flow of blood to the heart is blocked
- 9. Tiny tube placed into a hollow structure in your body
- 11. Percutaneous coronary intervention
- 13. Electrocardiogram
- 14. Carry blood back to the heart to provide more oxygen
- 15. Artery
- 17. Disease
- 18. When the heart cannot pump enough blood to stay alive
- 21. Cardiovascular disease
- 22. Bare metal stent