Cardiovascular Terms

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Across
  1. 2. take oxygenated blood away from the heart and towards organs in the body
  2. 5. responsible for getting blood to all parts of the body.
  3. 6. coronary artery bypass graft surgery
  4. 8. vessel
  5. 9. prevents an artery from collapsing on itself
  6. 13. cardiovascular disease
  7. 14. the lining around the heart is inflamed
  8. 16. muscle
  9. 18. heart
  10. 20. your heart does not pump blood as effectively as it should or used to
  11. 21. take deoxygenated blood back to the heart
Down
  1. 1. branching blood vessels that form a network between the arterioles and venules.
  2. 3. transcatheter aortic valve replacement
  3. 4. placed at the beginning of a blood vessel to deliver treatments inside that blood vessel
  4. 7. used to place balloons or stents
  5. 8. atrium
  6. 10. implantable cardioverter defibrillator
  7. 11. cardiac resynchronization therapy
  8. 12. the blood-flow to your brain is blocked
  9. 15. inflatable portion of a catheter that inflates to push debris out of the way of blood-flow
  10. 17. crown
  11. 19. plaque builds up and hardens the arteries that give your heart vital oxygen