Vital Signs Vocabulary
Across
- 1. difficulty breathing
- 3. instrument for listening to internal body sounds
- 4. outward signs of what is going on inside the body
- 8. area of the body under the arm
- 11. irregular or abnormal rhythm
- 14. ideal health state in the human body
- 15. slow heart rate
Down
- 2. act of listening for sounds within the body
- 5. instrument to measure blood pressure
- 6. high blood pressure
- 7. elevated body temperature
- 8. absence of respirations
- 9. bluish discoloration of skin lack of oxygen
- 10. pressure circulating blood against artery walls
- 12. balance between heat lost and heat produced by the body
- 13. rapid heartbeat