Blood and Heart Disorders

2. Repeated bacterial infection of endocardium.
3. Small purplish blotches on the skin.
4. Abnormal or unusual heart sounds.
7. A crushing chest pain that is the result of the myocardium deprived of oxygen.
9. Forces the heart to pump and repump the same blood because the valve doesn't close properly and blood backflows.
14. Abnormal hemoglobin in RBCs, becomes sharp and sickle-shaped under increased oxygen use by body.
16. Valve flaps become stiff.
18. Lack of adequate blood supply to the heart muscle.
19. A clot that develops and persists in an unbroken blood vessel.

1. Inflammation of pericardium causing pericardial layers to bind and stick together.
4. Commonly called a "heart attack" or "coronary".
5. The bone marrow becomes cancerous and WBCs are turned out rapidly.
6. Heart rate that is slower than normal.
8. Insufficient number of circulating platelets.
10. An excessive or abnormal increase in the number of erythrocytes.
11. pooling of blood on the feet and legs and inefficient venous return resulting from inactivity or pressure on the veins.
12. Uncoordinated shuttering of the heart muscles that looks like a bag of worms.
13. A thrombus that breaks away from the vessel wall and floats freely in the bloodstream.
15. A decrease in oxygen-carrying ability of blood.
17. Rapid heart beat.