medical term word search
Across
- 1. swollen and dilated veins
- 4. thin walls and carries blood to the heart
- 5. process of recording
- 7. when oxygenated blood arrives at the heart
- 10. inflammation of the inner layer of the heart muscle
- 12. increased pressure in the blood vessels
- 13. main chamber of the heart
- 21. blood travels as it gets through the lungs
- 22. double layered that surrounds the heart
- 24. thick walls and carries blood away from heart
- 25. wall between the right and left atria
Down
- 2. also known as EKG or ECG
- 3. enlarged heart
- 6. the middle, muscular layer of the heart that contracts to pump blood
- 8. top of the heart
- 9. small branch of veins
- 11. hardening of the arteries
- 14. three flap (cusp) valve
- 15. smaller arteries
- 16. very thin walls to exchange oxygen and carbon dioxide
- 17. separated by interatrial septum
- 18. artery has a weakened wall
- 19. outer layer of the heart
- 20. also referred to as a heart attack
- 23. complete stopping to the heart