Across
- 1. Premature ventricular contractions are extra heartbeats that begin in one of the heart's two lower pumping chambers (ventricles).
- 3. Hypertension is high blood pressure, and is when your blood pressure, the force of blood flowing through your blood vessels, is consistently too high.
- 4. Coronary artery bypass graft - a surgery that creates a new path for blood to flow around a blocked or partially blocked artery in the heart.
- 6. Atrial Fibrillation is when the normal beating in the upper chambers of the heart is irregular and blood doesn’t flow as well as it should from the atria to the lower chambers of the heart
- 7. Coronary artery disease - major blood vessels that supply the heart struggle to send enough blood, oxygen and nutrients to the heart muscle. Cholesterol deposits in heart arteries are a common cause of coronary artery disease.
- 9. Supraventricular tachycardia - an irregularly fast or erratic heartbeat affecting the heart's upper chambers.
Down
- 1. Pneumonia is an infection that inflames the air sacs in one or both lungs.
- 2. stroke, also referred to as a cerebral vascular accident (CVA) is an interruption in the flow of blood to cells in the brain.
- 4. Complete Blood Count - a blood test used to look at overall health and find a wide range of conditions, including anemia, infection and leukemia
- 5. "bis in die" in Latin means twice a day, a directive for medications
- 8. Acute Coronary Syndrome -an umbrella term describing situations in which blood supplied to the heart muscle is suddenly blocked.