Unit 5: The Cardiovascular System

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Across
  1. 4. contrast dye is injected into blood vessels to diagnose things like narrowing or aneurysms
  2. 7. coronary artery disease (abbreviated)
  3. 12. thin walls that allow exchange of oxygen and nutrients
  4. 13. suffix meaning pressure
  5. 14. thin inner layer that lines each chamber of heart
  6. 20. thin walls that bring blood to heart
  7. 22. recording of hearts electrical activity
  8. 25. narrowing of arteries around the heart
  9. 27. x-ray dye is injected into vessels surrounding heart to show narrowing's, aneurysms, collect samples and detect heart pressure
Down
  1. 1. muscular layer that contracts to pump blood
  2. 2. prefix meaning too slow
  3. 3. also known as a heart attack
  4. 5. portable ECG machine worn over a few days to record heart activity
  5. 6. suffix meaning enlarged
  6. 8. swollen and painfully dilated veins
  7. 9. used to listen to chest, lungs and intestines
  8. 10. do not resuscitate (abbreviated)
  9. 11. prefix meaning too fast
  10. 12. congestive heart failure (abbreviated)
  11. 15. Outer layer of heart lining containing visceral pericardium
  12. 16. high blood pressure
  13. 17. thick walls that carry blood away from heart
  14. 18. coronary artery bypass graft (abbreviated)
  15. 19. prefix meaning physiology or related to nature
  16. 21. suffix meaning the surgical removal of
  17. 23. complete stoppage of heart
  18. 24. cardiopulmonary resuscitation abbreviated
  19. 26. acute myocardial infarction (abbreviated)