Across
- 1. chronic disease of the heart muscle
- 3. Medical term meaning 'narrowing of a vessel'
- 9. Medical term meaning 'ruptured artery'
- 10. A thin membrane which lines the chambers of the heart
- 11. The contraction phase of the heart
- 12. A thick muscular layer which makes up the majority of the heart
- 15. Dividing walls within the heart
- 17. the left side of the heart pumps blood through the circuit
- 19. The relaxation phase of the heart, chambers fill
- 21. Thin-walled vessels connecting arterioles/venules gas exchange
- 22. Medical term meaning 'pertaining to ventricles'
- 26. Vessels that carry blood away from the heart
- 27. Medical term meaning 'record of a vessel'
- 28. obstruction or closing off of a vessel
- 29. A thin membrane which covers the heart
- 31. the right side of the heart pumps blood through this circuit
- 33. Medical term meaning 'pertaining to heart and lungs'
- 34. severe pain with sensation of constriction
- 35. development of a clot in a vessel
Down
- 2. accumulations of fatty deposits
- 4. within a vein
- 5. incision of a vein to draw blood
- 6. hardening of an artery
- 7. Small Arteries
- 8. Medical term meaning 'inflammation around the heart'
- 13. The pumping chambers of the heart
- 14. Vessels that carry blood toward the heart
- 16. fast heart rate (over 200 beats/min)
- 18. Small veins
- 20. spontaneous quivering of atria or ventricle; ineffective contraction
- 23. Medical term meaning 'process of recording heart electricity'
- 24. Medical term meaning 'study of the heart'
- 25. Medical term meaning 'heart muscle disease'
- 30. slow heart rate (less than 60 beats/min)
- 32. Medical term meaning 'clot destruction'