Cardiovascular System
Across
- 5. listening for sounds in blood vessels or other body structures
- 7. drug that treats arrhythmias
- 9. very rapid, inefficient, and irregular contractions of the heart
- 11. contraction phase of the heartbeat
- 13. one of two lower chambers of the heart
- 14. extra heart sound, heard between normal beats
- 15. abnormal heart rhythms
Down
- 1. pain, tension, and weakness in a leg after walking has begun, but absence of pain at rest
- 2. clot or other substance that travels to a distant location and suddenly blocks a blood vessel
- 3. high blood pressure
- 4. clumps of platelets, clotting proteins, microorganisms, and red blood cells on diseased heart valves
- 6. small, pinpoint hemorrhages
- 8. abnormal blowing or swishing sound
- 10. inflammation of the membrane surrounding the heart
- 12. local dilation of an arterial wall