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