Cardiovascular system crossword - Kendall Schreifels

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Across
  1. 5. Damage to the brain from interruption of its blood supply.
  2. 6. electrocardiogram
  3. 8. a hollow muscular organ that pumps the blood through the circulatory system by rhythmic contraction and dilation.
  4. 12. Damage or disease in the heart's major blood vessels.
  5. 15. type of artery with blood vessels that provide blood to the legs, pelvis, reproductive organs and other organs in the pelvic area.
  6. 17. chronic disease of the heart muscle.
  7. 18. type of artery with blood vessels that carry oxygen-poor blood from the right side of your heart to your lungs.
  8. 19. Sudden, unexpected loss of heart function, breathing, and consciousness.
  9. 22. Improper beating of the heart, whether irregular, too fast, or too slow.
  10. 24. prefix denoting blood or lymph vessels (prefix)
Down
  1. 1. technology that looks inside arteries of the heart to identify blockages
  2. 2. hardening of an artery (suffix)
  3. 3. technology that uses a balloon to open up a blocked artery
  4. 4. implantable device that returns heart rate to normal pace (speeding up or slowing down heart rate)
  5. 7. arterial conditions that are characterized by gruel-like lesions (prefix)
  6. 9. pair of organs situated within the rib cage, consisting of elastic sacs with branching passages into which air is drawn, so that oxygen can pass into the blood and carbon dioxide be removed.
  7. 10. cardiovascular disease
  8. 11. denoting slowness (prefix)
  9. 13. abdominal aortic aneurysm
  10. 14. main artery of the body, supplying oxygenated blood to the circulatory system.
  11. 16. node "pacemaker" of the heart located at the top of the right atrium; first structure of the ICS to receive the action potential from the nervous system
  12. 19. means heart (prefix)
  13. 20. metal scaffold that props open a blocked heart artery
  14. 21. Percutaneous coronary intervention
  15. 23. high blood pressure