Across
- 5. medication prescribed for chronic CHF or certain atrial dysrhythmias
- 7. valves located in the ventricles
- 8. medications used with chronic fluid overload
- 10. sound that makes lub noise (considered normal)
- 11. inside layer of heart that forms valves
- 13. atria and ventricles relax
- 14. dominant pacemaker
- 15. when muscle is stretched it contracts with greater force
- 16. large accumulation of fluid to decrease CO
- 20. artery that carries deoxygenated blood
Down
- 1. muscular middle layer of heart
- 2. straining against a closed glottis
- 3. period in which muscle cannot be re polarized
- 4. percentage of blood that leaves heart on each contraction
- 6. blood pushed out against systemic arteries
- 9. atria and ventricles contract
- 12. arteries supply oxygenated blood to heart
- 16. initial stretching of the ventricle prior to contraction
- 17. amount of blood pumped by either ventricle
- 18. muscle fibers contract
- 19. protective layer on vessel to withstand high pressure