Across
- 4. Leads to the clogging of small blood vessels
- 5. Blood cell formation
- 6. A clot in an unbroken blood vessel
- 9. Purple blotching on the skin
- 10. Bacterial infection of the endocardium
- 12. A thrombus floating freely in the bloodstream
- 13. Rate of erythrocyte production
- 15. When the bone marrow becomes cancerous
- 16. Commonly called a "heart attack"
- 18. Rupture of RBCs
- 19. Inflammation of the pericardium
- 20. A substance the body recognizes as foreign
Down
- 1. Valve flaps become stiff
- 2. Crushing chest pain
- 3. A rapid, uncoordinated shuddering of the heart muscle
- 7. Stem cell
- 8. An abnormally low WBC count
- 11. Lack of adequate blood supply to the heart
- 14. Commonly known as the "bleeder's disease
- 17. A decrease in the oxygen-carrying ability of the blood
