Across
- 1. A medicine that prevents blood clotting; also known as a blood thinner
- 3. A sac-like protrusion from a blood vessel or the heart, often resulting from a weakening of the vessel wall or heart muscle
- 5. The elimination or removal of tissue, often used to treat abnormal heart rhythms
- 9. Heart Disease: Heart disease that arises after birth, usually due to infection or fatty deposits in the heart’s arteries
- 10. The inability to speak, write, or understand language due to brain injury or disease
- 12. The ring around a heart valve where the valve leaflet merges with the heart muscle
- 13. A nonsurgical technique that temporarily inflates a tiny balloon inside an artery to treat diseased arteries
- 14. Cachexia: Muscle and weight loss caused by severe heart disease, related to depressed cardiac output in end-stage heart failure
Down
- 2. (or Dysrhythmia): An abnormal heartbeat
- 4. An antiarrhythmic medicine used to treat irregular heart rhythms.
- 6. The largest artery in the body, responsible for receiving oxygenated blood from the heart and delivering it to the body and brain
- 7. (Angina Pectoris): Chest pain that occurs when an area of the heart muscle does not receive enough oxygen-rich blood
- 8. Arrest: The stopping of the heartbeat, often associated with coronary heart disease.
- 9. Valve: The valve that regulates blood flow from the heart into the aorta2.
- 11. An x-ray technique that visualizes the coronary arteries by injecting dye