Across
- 2. plugging; an obstruction or a closing off
- 3. small vessels that gather blood from the capillaries into the veins
- 5. vessels that carry blood away from the heart to the arterioles
- 8. a widening; bulging of the wall of an artery caused by congenital defect
- 14. resting; resting state of a myocardial cell
- 15. termination of ventricular fibrillation by delivering an electrical stimulus to the heart
- 18. restoration of a fast of irregular heart rate to normal rhythm
- 19. swollen, twisted vein
- 23. drug that lowers blood pressure
- 24. surgical repair of a heart valve
- 25. to contract; period during the cardiac cycle
- 26. an abnormal growth of tissue around a valve
- 28. circle or crown
- 29. profuse sweating
- 30. lower right or left chamber of the heart
- 31. pulse
Down
- 1. excision of atheromatous plaque from within an artery
- 4. decreased blood flow to tissue caused by obstruction or constriction
- 6. a localized area of necrosis
- 7. fatty (lipid) paste
- 9. chest
- 10. a druge that increase the force of myocardial contractions
- 11. compression of a part that causes narrowing
- 12. condition of narrowing of a part
- 13. drug that dilates coronary arteries
- 16. a stationary blood clot
- 17. to expand; period during the cardiac cycle
- 20. large artery that is the main trunk of the arterial system
- 21. drug that increase the secretion of urine
- 22. vein
- 27. heart muscle