Across
- 4. heart defect cause during fetal development
- 9. only artery that carries deoxygenated blood
- 10. plasma is made up of 92% of this
- 12. arteries that supply blood directly to the heart
- 13. thick, muscular layer of the heart
- 15. loss of movement on one side of the body
- 18. artery that is on the upper arm
- 19. formation of blood clot in vessel
- 20. stent that holds an artery open
- 21. coagulation is also known as
- 22. redness, swelling, pain and heart are signs of
- 23. disease causing slow blood clotting & risk for bleeding
- 25. blue appearance of skin
- 26. formation of blood cells
- 30. inflammation of a vein
- 32. recommended # of minutes of exercise per day
- 33. blood vessels that carry oxygenated blood
- 34. low amounts of RBC in blood
- 35. surrounds, engulfs & digests bacteria
- 39. blood vessels that carry deoxygenated blood
- 41. receives oxygen from the placenta
- 43. stroke due to bleeding in brain
Down
- 1. pain in chest due to ischemia
- 2. oxygen binds to this in RBCs
- 3. ballooning of an artery wall
- 5. blood flow from heart to lungs and then back to heart is in what system
- 6. loss of elasticity of the artery
- 7. low platelets
- 8. number of minutes without blood to brain causing brain cell death
- 11. smallest blood vessels
- 14. another name for fever
- 16. stroke due to blood clot
- 17. rupture of RBC
- 24. the silent killer
- 27. strongest blood vessels
- 28. picture of electrical activity of the heart
- 29. slow heart rate
- 31. change or deviation from normal heart rate
- 36. fast heart rate
- 37. also knowns as the pacemaker of the heart
- 38. inadequate blood flow to organs
- 40. defects in the heart valve
- 42. substance that traveled in blood and lodge