Chapter 8 Vocabulary

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Across
  1. 8. Difficulty communicating through speech or writing.
  2. 10. Difficulty understanding spoken or written words.
  3. 12. Another word for myocardial infarction.
  4. 14. Temporary loss of consciousness.
  5. 15. Act of vomiting, or ejecting stomach contents through the mouth and/or nose.
  6. 17. Having awareness of surroundings, sensations, and thoughts.
  7. 21. Nosebleed.
  8. 23. Stopping/cessation of breathing.
  9. 24. Blood sugar.
  10. 25. Care given to an injured person by the first people to respond to an emergency.
  11. 26. Life-threatening complication of diabetes that can result from either too much insulin or too little food.
Down
  1. 1. Sudden stopping/cessation of the heartbeat.
  2. 2. Condition in which the tube through which air enters the lungs is blocked.
  3. 3. High blood glucose (blood sugar).
  4. 4. Another word for insulin reaction, which is a life-threatening complication of diabetes that can result from either too much insulin or too little food.
  5. 5. Weakness on one side of the body.
  6. 6. Bleeding; blood loss.
  7. 7. Life-threatening complication of diabetes that can result from undiagnosed diabetes, infection, not enough insulin, hyperglycemia, eating too much, not getting enough exercise, and stress.
  8. 9. Condition that occurs when there is decreased blood flow to organs and tissues.
  9. 11. Medical procedures used when a person's heart and lungs have stopped working.
  10. 13. Method of attempting to remove an object from the airway of someone who is choking.
  11. 16. Low blood glucose (blood sugar).
  12. 18. Another word for syncope.
  13. 19. Group of people chosen for a particular shift to respond to resident emergencies.
  14. 20. Condition in which blood flow to the heart is blocked and muscle cells die.
  15. 22. Paralysis of one side of the body.