Coronary Cardiac Puzzle
Across
- 2. uses ultrasound to look at the heart and its vessels
- 3. Left Side, Oxygenated
- 6. automated external defibrillator
- 7. another name for high blood pressure
- 10. to record
- 12. infarction heart attack, heart doesn’t receive the blood flow it needs
- 13. enlarged or dilated veins typically in the legs
- 15. monitor portable ECG typically left on for a week
- 17. Cava Longest Vein in the Body
- 18. Right Side, without oxygen
- 20. medical term for shortness of breath, meaning abnormal or ill
- 21. the area in which the heart lies
- 24. meaning hardening, in the name of the condition where arteries harden
Down
- 1. the type of muscle of which the heart is made up of
- 4. Ultrasonography looks at blood going through the vessels
- 5. artery has a weakened wall, causing it to swell
- 6. x-ray including dye pumped into the body, can diagnose stenosis or aneurysms
- 8. Cathererization catheter injects dye into vessels around the heart
- 9. referring to the lungs
- 11. literally means ‘heart’!
- 14. heart failure reduced blood flow in the left ventricle
- 16. electrocardiography
- 19. coronary care unit
- 22. shortness of breath
- 23. vital signs stable
- 25. very thin walls, exchange O2, CO2, and nutrients!