Cardiovascular system
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- 1. Abbreviation for a non-surgical procedure used to treat the blockages in a coronary artery
- 6. An inflammation of the pericardium or sac that contains your heart
- 8. Caused by plaque buildup in the wall of the arteries that supply blood to the heart
- 10. Prefix meaning heart
- 11. Records the electrical signals in the heart
- 14. Any of the muscular-walled tubes forming part of the circulation system by which blood is conveyed from the heart to all parts of the body
- 15. A very small artery connecting a larger artery to capillaries
- 17. Combining form meaning vessel
- 18. Relating to the aorta
- 20. A sudden blockage in your pulmonary arteries, the blood vessels that send blood to your lungs
- 24. Uses sound waves to show how blood flows through the heart and heart valves
- 25. Abbreviation for recording the electrical signal from the heart to check for different heart conditions
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- 2. General term that describes a disease of the heart or blood vessels
- 3. A hollow muscular organ that pumps blood through the circulatory system by rhythmic contraction and dilation
- 4. A painless and harmless test that uses high-frequency sound waves to create pictures of the insides of the two large arteries in your neck
- 5. Any of the fine branching blood vessels that form a network between the arterioles and venules
- 7. A disease that affects the arteries leading to and within the brain
- 9. Abbreviation for vascular prostheses used by interventional cardiologists to reopen and maintain patent coronary arteries narrowed by arteriosclerosis
- 12. Magnetic resonance imaging technology is used for non-invasive assessment of the function and structure of the cardiovascular system
- 13. Any of the tubes forming part of the blood circulation system of the body, carrying in most cases oxygen-depleted blood toward the heart
- 16. Cardiological test that measures the heart's ability to respond to external stress in a controlled clinical environment
- 19. Happens when the flow of blood that brings oxygen to a part of your heart muscle suddenly becomes blocked
- 21. Relating to the blood vessels
- 22. Relating to blood
- 23. Abbreviation for a procedure that prevents the vascular recoil cardiologists observed with balloon angioplasty