Med term
Across
- 2. short hand for nothing by mouth
- 3. slow
- 7. any of the four valves in heart don't open/close
- 13. network of small vessels that perfuse tissues
- 14. portable electrocardiography
- 15. a test that uses ultrasound to look at heart/vessels
- 16. vessels that return blood to the heart
- 17. chest cavity
- 19. fast
- 20. test using x-ray dye injected into blood vessels to see narrowing or aneurysms
- 22. pumps blood through the cardiovascular system
- 23. abbreviation for hypertension
Down
- 1. measures blood pressure
- 4. hardeing or narrowing of heart arteries
- 5. heart doesn't pump enough blood
- 6. short hand for as needed
- 8. abbreviation for electrocardiography
- 9. records the electrical activity of the heart
- 10. is a substance that travels all over the body and is pumped by the heart.
- 11. above/over/excessive
- 12. problem with the rate of the heartbeat
- 13. heart muscle becomes larger and stiffens
- 18. someone who studies
- 20. vessels that deliver blood to tissues
- 21. abbreviation for patient