Cardiovascular System

2. Is the pressure of circulating blood on the walls of blood vessels. Most of this pressure is due to work done by the heart by pumping blood through the circulatory system.
5. This condition occurs when a part of the heart doesn’t get the blood flow it needs.
8. an organ of soft nervous tissue contained in the skull of vertebrates, functioning as the coordinating center of sensation and intellectual and nervous activity.
9. Any of the blood vessels that carry oxygenated blood away from the heart to the body's cells, tissues, and organs.
10. cardiopulmonary resuscitation abbreviation
11. suffix for pain
15. Most nonmedical people call it a blood pressure cuff.
16. Word-forming element meaning "pertaining to the heart.
18. suffix for small
19. abbreviation for Emergency Department
21. known as high blood pressure
23. a pair of spongy, air-filled organs located on either side of the chest (thorax).
24. a laboratory test that is used to measure certain items in the blood that may indicate heart muscle damage.

1. During this test, the patient lies still while several tabs with wires, called leads, are attached to the chest. The machine records the electrical activity of the heart.
3. is a condition in which the pericardial sac around the heart is inflamed.
4. for fast heart beat.
6. the main artery of the body, supplying oxygenated blood to the circulatory system. In humans it passes over the heart from the left ventricle and runs down in front of the backbone.
7. Is a condition in which an artery has a weakened wall, causing it to swell, like a balloon.
12. abbreviation for echodiagram
13. The organ in your chest that pumps blood through your veins and arteries
14. are swollen and dilated veins.
17. transplant a surgical procedure in which the patient’s heart is replaced with the heart from a donor.
20. Abbreviation for hypertension
22. test During this test the patient is asked to walk on a treadmill or ride a bicycle to increase how hard the heart is working.