A Beating Heart

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Across
  1. 1. heart chambers that push blood down into the ventricles
  2. 3. fast heart rate / fast pulse
  3. 6. term that describes the low pressure state of the heart as it is filling up with blood
  4. 10. during the QRS-wave of an EKG, _______ electrify and contract
  5. 11. slow heart rate / slow pulse
  6. 12. sound made by atrioventricular valves (valves between the right and left atria and ventricles) closing and blood smacking into it
  7. 13. flaps of connective tissue that blood smacks into, causing the sound of the pulse
  8. 20. low blood pressure
  9. 21. unit of pulse: beats per minute
  10. 22. heart electrical charge decreases back to normal
  11. 23. ____ ____ sound of the heart
  12. 24. __________ describes an arrhythmia when the ventricles are over compensating and contracting too forcefully
  13. 25. pressure mmhg: unit of ____ ____(millimeters of Mercury)
Down
  1. 2. during the P-wave of an EKG, _______ electrify and contract
  2. 4. high blood pressure
  3. 5. describes a fatal heart arrhythmia where the heart is fluttering trying to contract
  4. 7. term that describes top number of blood pressure
  5. 8. heart chambers that push blood out of the heart
  6. 9. 120/80 mmHg and 65 bpm
  7. 14. abnormal heart rhythm
  8. 15. term that describes bottom number blood pressure
  9. 16. term that describes the high pressure state of the heart when blood is pushing out of the arteries
  10. 17. "flat line"
  11. 18. sound made by semilunar valves (valves between the ventricles and arteries) closing and blood smacking into it
  12. 19. heart gets electrically charged up