Sy'Rai Lee's Vital Signs Crossword

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Across
  1. 2. contains a bell and diaphragm
  2. 3. rales have crackling and blank sounds
  3. 5. Regularity of pulse/spacing of beats
  4. 7. bluish discoloration of the skin caused by decreased oxygen and an increase in CO2 in the bloodstream
  5. 11. sleep, depressants, heart disease, coma, physical training do what to pulse volume
  6. 13. behind the knee
  7. 16. exercise, stimulants, excitement, fever, dehydration, shock, and nerves do what to the volume of the pulse
  8. 17. constant pressure in walls of arteries when the left ventricle of the heart is at rest or between contractions.
  9. 18. pressures greater than 140mmhg systolic and 90mmhg
  10. 20. heartbeat under 60 bpm
  11. 22. hypertension is defined as blank blood pressure
  12. 23. measured in strength, force, quality, or intensity of pulse
Down
  1. 1. a factor that affects vital signs
  2. 4. abnormal breathing pattern followed by periods of dyspnea
  3. 6. pressures less than 90 systolic and 60 diastolic
  4. 8. occurs in the walls of arteries when the left ventricle of the heart is contracting and pushing blood into arteries
  5. 9. process of taking in o2 and expelling CO2 from the lungs and respiratory tract
  6. 10. a pulse blank is characterized by the heart not pumping enough blood to make a pulse or it beats too fast to fill with blood
  7. 12. apical pulse is taken where at the heart?
  8. 14. what has a temperature reading of 98
  9. 15. throbbing of the arteries caused by contractions of the heart
  10. 19. pulse is usually taken over what artery
  11. 21. has a normal range of 96.6-98.6