Cardiovascular system

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  1. 1. Abbreviation for a non-surgical procedure used to treat the blockages in a coronary artery
  2. 6. An inflammation of the pericardium or sac that contains your heart
  3. 8. Caused by plaque buildup in the wall of the arteries that supply blood to the heart
  4. 10. Prefix meaning heart
  5. 11. Records the electrical signals in the heart
  6. 14. Any of the muscular-walled tubes forming part of the circulation system by which blood is conveyed from the heart to all parts of the body
  7. 15. A very small artery connecting a larger artery to capillaries
  8. 17. Combining form meaning vessel
  9. 18. Relating to the aorta
  10. 20. A sudden blockage in your pulmonary arteries, the blood vessels that send blood to your lungs
  11. 24. Uses sound waves to show how blood flows through the heart and heart valves
  12. 25. Abbreviation for recording the electrical signal from the heart to check for different heart conditions
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  1. 2. General term that describes a disease of the heart or blood vessels
  2. 3. A hollow muscular organ that pumps blood through the circulatory system by rhythmic contraction and dilation
  3. 4. A painless and harmless test that uses high-frequency sound waves to create pictures of the insides of the two large arteries in your neck
  4. 5. Any of the fine branching blood vessels that form a network between the arterioles and venules
  5. 7. A disease that affects the arteries leading to and within the brain
  6. 9. Abbreviation for vascular prostheses used by interventional cardiologists to reopen and maintain patent coronary arteries narrowed by arteriosclerosis
  7. 12. Magnetic resonance imaging technology is used for non-invasive assessment of the function and structure of the cardiovascular system
  8. 13. Any of the tubes forming part of the blood circulation system of the body, carrying in most cases oxygen-depleted blood toward the heart
  9. 16. Cardiological test that measures the heart's ability to respond to external stress in a controlled clinical environment
  10. 19. Happens when the flow of blood that brings oxygen to a part of your heart muscle suddenly becomes blocked
  11. 21. Relating to the blood vessels
  12. 22. Relating to blood
  13. 23. Abbreviation for a procedure that prevents the vascular recoil cardiologists observed with balloon angioplasty