Cardiovascular System
Across
- 4. carry blood away from heart
- 8. carry blood toward heart
- 10. shortness of breath
- 13. heart
- 15. septum wall between left and right atria
- 17. testing tests how well system is functioning
- 18. ultrasound looks at heart and vessels
- 21. disease
- 23. fast
- 24. muscular layer that contracts to pump blood
Down
- 1. high blood pressure
- 2. enzymes measures certain items in blood
- 3. artery has weakened wall, swells
- 5. ventricular fibrillation
- 6. catheterization detects pressure in heart
- 7. premature ventricular contraction
- 9. thin inner layer that lines each chamber
- 11. arrest complete stopping of the heart
- 12. veins swollen and dilated veins
- 14. injects x-ray dye into blood vessels
- 16. infarction heart attack
- 19. echocardiogram
- 20. to view
- 22. vessel