Across
- 2. Inflammation of connective tissue
- 3. Expansion of an organ or vessel
- 7. Surgical puncture of the membranous sac surrounding the heart to draw out fluid.
- 10. Pinpoint hemorrhagic spots on the skin
- 11. Capillaries in the villus of the small intestine
- 14. Immature form of RBCs
- 15. Algorithms built into the software can detect changes in skin color, which otherwise go undetected by the naked eye
- 17. Tissue related to the blood cells in bone marrow
- 19. Cardiac arrhythmia characterized by the rapid, incomplete, and uncoordinated contractions of the muscle fibers of the heart ventricles.
- 20. Resets heart’s rhythm to normal sinus
Down
- 1. Large bone marrow cell with multiple nuclei
- 4. Abnormal heart sound heard on auscultation
- 5. Fluid in pericardium compresses the heart
- 6. Excessive menstrual flow in duration or quantity, or both.
- 8. Period of cardiac muscle relaxation alternating with systole or contraction.
- 9. Drugs to relax and expand blood vessels
- 12. Difficulty breathing
- 13. Inflammation of the lymph vessels
- 16. Contraction of the chambers of the heart; the myocardial fibers shorten, making the chamber smaller and forcing out blood.
- 18. Of unknown cause
