Across
- 2. upper right or left chamber of the heart
- 4. circle or crown
- 7. surgical repair of a heart valve
- 15. drug that lowers blood pressure
- 17. high blood pressure
- 20. compression of a part that causes narrowing
- 21. a stationary blood clot
- 22. decreased blood flow to tissue caused by obstruction or constriction of a blood vessel
- 24. lower right or left chamber of the heart
- 26. tiny vessels that join arterioles and venules
- 27. joining of two blood vessels to allow flow from one to the other
- 29. heart muscle
- 30. membrane forming the outer layer of the heart
Down
- 1. profuse sweating
- 3. vein
- 5. low blood pressure
- 6. resting; resting state of a myocardial cell
- 8. small vessels that receive blood from the arteries
- 9. vessel
- 10. thickening; loss of elasticity and calcification (hardening) of arterial walls
- 11. membrane lining the cavities of the heart
- 12. vessels that carry blood away from the heart to the arterioles
- 13. device that delivers the electrical stimulus in defibrillation
- 14. drug that counteracts cardiac arrhythmia
- 16. drug that reduces serum fat and cholesterol
- 18. plugging; an obstruction or a closing off
- 19. normal blood pressure
- 23. chest
- 25. muscle
- 28. vessels that carry blood to the heart from the venules