EKG Vocabulary
Across
- 6. allows electricity to pass through the ventricles
- 7. rapid heart rate
- 8. this point marks where ventricular depolarization stops
- 10. waves rising above/below the isoelectric line
- 11. regular, repeated pattern
- 13. slow heart rate
- 14. ventricular depolarization
- 15. not always visible but represents repolarization of the Bundle of His and Purkinje Fibers
Down
- 1. no organized contraction
- 2. slight irregularity in the rhythm
- 3. atrial depolarization
- 4. ventricular repolarization
- 5. a tool to measure the the regularity of the waveforms
- 9. normal resting heart rate for adults ranges from 60 to 100 beats per minute.
- 12. causes atria to contract