Across
- 1. Abbreviation for mitral valve prolapse
- 4. Middle, muscular layer that contracts to pump blood
- 7. Test that uses ultrasound to look at blood going through blood vessels to determine if they are narrowed or have thrombus.
- 9. Abbreviation for atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease
- 11. Thin walls so the exchange of oxygen and carbon dioxide as well as the exchange of nutrients can occur.
- 12. Largest artery in the body
- 13. Thin inner layer that lines each chamber of the heart
- 14. suffix meaning rupture
- 16. Portable ECG machine that the patient wears over a few days
- 17. Test that uses ultrasound to look at the heart and its vessels
- 19. Measures certain items in the blood that may indicate heart muscle damage
- 21. Complete stopping of the heart
- 23. suffix meaning process of freeing or destroying
- 25. root word meaning clot
Down
- 2. Condition in which the pericardial sac around the heart is inflamed
- 3. Another name for a heart attack which is when a part of the heart doesn't get the blood flow it needs.
- 5. Procedure using x-ray dye and a tiny tube called a catheter.
- 6. Swollen and dilated veins
- 8. root word meaning fatty substance
- 10. Have thick walls and carry blood away from the heart
- 15. Abbreviation for implantable cardiovert defibrillator
- 18. Abbreviation for premature ventricular contraction
- 20. Condition in which a artery has a weakened wall causing it to swell like a balloon.
- 22. Prefix meaning self
- 24. Abbreviation for ventricular tachycardia