Across
- 3. normal blood pressure
- 5. readings recorded as blood pressure
- 7. a stationary blood clot
- 8. death of tissue
- 9. arrest the sudden and unexpected stopping of the heart
- 11. an area of tissue that undergoes necrosis due to ischemia
- 14. the body's natural response to a trauma
- 15. condition that may lead to excessive plaque build up in the arteries
- 17. "blood pressure cuff"
- 23. referring or having to do with the heart
- 24. the "blood space" in a vessel
- 27. a procedure to insert a stent in an artery to hold it open
- 28. factors influences that play a role in ones health that may or may not have control over
- 29. pressure exerted on the artery wall during ventricular relaxation
- 31. chronic high blood pressure
- 33. an x-ray image to look for stenosis for an artery
- 34. obstruction or blockage of a vessel
Down
- 1. a narrowing of a vessel
- 2. hypertensive blood pressure
- 4. the deposits of fatty material in the lining of a wall of an artery
- 6. the formation of a clot that occludes blood flow in an artery
- 10. pectoris a general pain radiating throughout the chest due to ischemia
- 12. artery disease CAD
- 13. bypass the taking of a vessel from somewhere in the body and grafting it into the affected coronary artery
- 16. term for an event that suffers from hypoxia due to an occlusion resulting in decreased blood flow
- 18. chronic low blood pressure
- 19. an event resulting from a occlusion caused by a "traveling clot"
- 20. plaque an unstable atheromatous plaque prone to rupture
- 21. lack of oxygen due to insufficient blood supply
- 22. a clot that travels from one area to another
- 25. volume the amount of blood pumped with each systole
- 26. the body's response to trauma as a result of a "condition"
- 30. infarction "heart attack" or death of heart muscle tissue
- 32. pressure exerted on the artery wall during ventricular contraction