Cardiovascular Terms
Across
- 5. means aorta
- 6. quick and painless test that records the electrical signals in your heart
- 7. test involes raising your heart rate with exercise or medicine
- 9. drug eluting stent
- 10. electrocardiogram
- 12. meaning the heart muscle is not getting enough oxygen to function properly
- 14. uses a megnetic field of radio waves to create detailed images of your heart
- 16. portable ECG device that you wear to continuously record your heart rhythm
- 18. hardening
- 21. cardiovascular disease
- 23. vessel
- 24. pain in the chest
Down
- 1. means heart
- 2. organ that pumps blood through the circulatory system
- 3. uses sound waves to produce detailed images of your heart's structure
- 4. meaning the mitral valve is abnormally narrow
- 5. hardening of the arteries
- 8. occurs when the blood supply is cut from the heart
- 11. bare metal stent
- 13. a minute thin walled vessel of the body
- 15. a tube through which the blood circulates in the body
- 17. blood vessels that carry blood towards the heart
- 19. blood vessels that deliver oxygen blood from the heart to the tissues of the body
- 20. percutaneous coronary intervention
- 22. slow