Unit 5 Lab
Across
- 1. vital signs stable
- 7. a test that uses ultrasound to look at the heart and vessels.
- 9. better known as high blood pressure
- 11. atrioventricular
- 15. lung
- 17. oxygen
- 18. a condition in which the heart is not efficiently pumping from the left ventricle
- 20. cardiopulmonary resuscitation
- 21. measures the electrical activity of the heart.
- 22. vein
- 23. a condition in which an artery has a weakened wall, causing it to swell
Down
- 2. instrument used to measure blood pressure
- 3. blood vessels that carry blood toward the heart.
- 4. blood vessels with thick walls that carry blood away from the heart.
- 5. pulse
- 6. uses ultrasound to look at blood moving through the blood vessels
- 8. heart
- 10. the hardening of arteries, caused by fat build-up on the arteries’ walls
- 11. a test where contrast (x-ray dye) is injected into blood vessels.
- 12. blood vessels with very thin walls that allow the exchange of oxygen, carbon dioxide, and other nutrients.
- 13. hypertension
- 14. commonly referred to as a heart attack
- 16. mitral valve prolapse
- 19. the organ/muscle that is at the center of the cardiovascular system’s function