Blood and Heart Disorders

3. A clot that develops and persists in an unbroken blood vessel.
4. Uncoordinated shuttering of the heart muscles that looks like a bag of worms.
7. An excessive or abnormal increase in the number of erythrocytes.
8. Forces the heart to pump and repump the same blood because the valve doesn't close properly and blood backflows.
11. Abnormal hemoglobin in RBCs, becomes sharp and sickle-shaped under increased oxygen use by body.
15. A decrease in oxygen-carrying ability of blood.
17. Small purplish blotches on the skin.
18. pooling of blood on the feet and legs and inefficient venous return resulting from inactivity or pressure on the veins.

1. Rapid heart beat.
2. Abnormal or unusual heart sounds.
3. Insufficient number of circulating platelets.
5. Commonly called a "heart attack" or "coronary".
6. Inflammation of pericardium causing pericardial layers to bind and stick together.
9. A thrombus that breaks away from the vessel wall and floats freely in the bloodstream.
10. Valve flaps become stiff.
12. The bone marrow becomes cancerous and WBCs are turned out rapidly.
13. A crushing chest pain that is the result of the myocardium deprived of oxygen.
14. Repeated bacterial infection of endocardium.
16. Heart rate that is slower than normal.
19. Lack of adequate blood supply to the heart muscle.