Understanding Pulse
Across
- 3. abnormally slow heart rate
- 4. variation in rate of impulses in an artery due to cardiac arrhythmia
- 5. rapid heart rate
- 6. strong and powerful pulse
- 7. regular alternation of weak and strong beats without changes in cycle length
- 9. the speed of the heartbeat measured by the number of contractions of the heart per minute
- 10. blood contained within it at various periods of the cardiac cycle
- 11. unable to be heard; faint
Down
- 1. the amount of blood the heart pumps through the circulatory system in a minute
- 2. weak pulse
- 7. abnormal heart rhythm
- 8. movement or variation characterized by the regular recurrence or alternation of different quantities or conditions