Unit 5 Lab: Cardiovascular System Crossword Puzzle
Across
- 1. Known as EKG or ECG, helps check heart rhythm
- 4. Main organ of the cardiovascular system
- 8. Prefix meaning disease
- 10. Emergency Room
- 12. Chest Pain
- 13. Instrument to measure pressure
- 14. Blood vessels that return deoxygenated blood from your organs back to your heart
- 17. Have thin walls so the exchange of oxygen and carbon dioxide as well as the exchange of nutrients can occur.
- 18. Prefix meaning fast
- 19. Echocardiogram
- 20. Have thick walls and carry blood from the heart
- 21. Artery has a weakened wall, causing it to swell, like a balloon
- 22. Suffix meaning inflammation
- 24. Commonly referred to as a heart attack
- 25. Known as high blood pressure
Down
- 2. Pericardial sac is inflamed
- 3. Prefix meaning slow
- 5. Instrument for viewing
- 6. Swollen and Dilated Veins
- 7. Blood Pressure
- 9. Process of recording
- 11. Vessel process of recording
- 15. Blood
- 16. Fibrous sac that encloses the heart and great vessels
- 23. Suffix meaning process of recording