Across
- 3. substance that delays or prevents coagulation of blood
- 5. inflammation of heart tissue
- 7. defect of the heart muscle
- 9. enlargement of the heart
- 12. bluish appearance of skin
- 13. repair of a narrowed blood vessel through surgery or other angiographic procedures
- 14. inflammation of an artery
Down
- 1. medication that relaxes the bronchioles allowing them to dilate
- 2. paroxysmal chest pain
- 4. a group of diseases characterized by hardening of the arteries
- 6. abnormally slow heart beat below 60 BPM
- 8. a thickening and hardening of the arteries occurring when plaques of cholesterol and lipids form in the arterial tunica intima
- 10. medication that reduces fever
- 11. a nonsurgical procedure using catheter to apply radio-frequency energy to destroy the tissue causing arrhythmias.
- 14. the absence of heartbeat