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- 6. What medication helps thin the blood?
- 8. What is the most common symptom of a heart attack?
- 10. What kinds of valves are located in the heart?
- 12. A blood vessel that carries blood from the heart
- 13. An extremely tiny blood vessel that connects the arteries and the veins. These vessels deliver oxygen to tissues
- 14. What are three types of blood vessels?
- 17. A person who applies his/her understanding of science and math to creating things for the benefit of humanity and our world
- 18. A hollow, muscular organ that pumps blood
- 19. The _______ _______, also called the cardiovascular system or the vascular system, is an organ system that permits blood to circulate and transport nutrients (such as amino acids and electrolytes), oxygen, carbon dioxide, hormones, and blood cells to and from the cell
- 22. What is the tool used to diagnose a heart attack?
- 23. A deposit of fatty material on the inner lining of an arterial wall.
- 24. What receives all the oxygenated blood from the heart and distributes to the rest of the body?
- 25. When a blockage of a blood vessel to the brain causes inadequate oxygen supply, leading to weakness, paralysis, speech difficulties, loss of consciousness and/or death.
- 27. How many pumps in the human heart?
- 28. Damage to heart muscle that is deprived of oxygen via blood flow, usually due to blockage of a coronary artery. Typically accompanied by chest pain. Often life threatening
- 30. People with _____ have a higher risk of a heart attack?
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- 1. Cardiologist can reopen an artery with a balloon, this surgery is called?
- 2. What are the types of engineers who work on medical devices?
- 3. What are types of blood cells that protect the body from disease?
- 4. What artery carries oxygenated blood to the heart?
- 5. What medication helps open the arteries?
- 7. The use of artificial tissues, organs or organ components to replace damaged or absent parts of the body, such as artificial limbs and heart pacemakers
- 9. How many chambers in the human heart?
- 11. A blood vessel that returns blood to the heart
- 15. How many people die from heart attacks around the world every year?
- 16. blood cells What are the types of blood cells that carry oxygen?
- 20. Also called myocardial infarction
- 21. What is the world's leading killer?
- 26. A hollow, flexible tube for insertion into a body cavity, duct or vessel to allow the passage of fluids or expand a passageway.
- 29. A small, expandable tube used for inserting in a blocked vessel.