Across
- 1. Tubes that transport blood throughout the body, delivering oxygen and nutrients and removing waste
- 3. Fast rhythm of the heart
- 8. Force of your blood pushing against your artery walls as your heart pumps it through your body
- 9. Slow rhythm of the heart
- 10. Blood clot in the heart
- 12. The organ that pumps blood throughout your body
Down
- 2. Ultrasound of the heart
- 4. A medical device that sends an electric shock to the heart to correct dangerously abnormal rhythms in your heart
- 5. Fine blood vessels that form a network between the arterioles and venules
- 6. Chest compression
- 7. The membrane enclosing the heart
- 11. Flow of blood that brings oxygen to a part of your heart muscle suddenly becomes blocked. Common way to die