Across
- 2. Used to measure blood pressure
- 8. Vena cava for the bottom half of the body
- 10. Uses ultrasound to look at the heart and its vessels
- 11. Abbreviation for the term: Implantable Cardioverter defibrillator
- 13. Abbreviation meaning: Emergency Department
- 14. Disease where the pericardial sac around the heart is inflamed
- 19. Prefix meaning within
- 20. Combining form meaning plug or blockage
- 22. Suffix meaning surgical repair
- 23. arrest Complete stopping of the heart
- 25. The largest artery in body
- 26. Meaning of the abbreviation: Bld
- 27. The thin inner layer that lines each chamber in the heart
Down
- 1. Abbreviation meaning: hypertension
- 3. The middle, muscular layer of the heart
- 4. Responsible for transportation of blood
- 5. wires attatched to the chest that record electrical activity in the heart
- 6. Often referred to as a "heart attack"
- 7. X-ray dye is injected into blood vessels
- 9. Vena cava for the top half of the body
- 12. Commonly called "high blood pressure"
- 15. Disease where the artery has a weakened wall
- 16. Listens to the sound of the heart, lungs, and intestines
- 17. Suffix meaning enlarged
- 18. Meaning of the abbreviation: h/o
- 21. The final, outermost layer of the heart
- 24. Combining form meaning clot