Across
- 2. very tiny blood vessels that helps to connect your arteries and veins in addition to facilitating the exchange of certain elements between your blood and tissues
- 7. feelings or sensations that your heart is pounding or racing
- 8. a medical emergency that happens when the blood flow to your brain is interrupted.
- 10. irregular and often rapid heart rate that occurs when the two upper chambers of your heart experience chaotic electrical signals
- 12. a sudden, uncontrolled electrical disturbance in the brain. It can cause changes in your behaviour, movements or feelings, and in levels of consciousness
Down
- 1. the buildup of fats, cholesterol and other substances in and on your artery walls
- 3. a problem with the rate or rhythm of your heartbeat
- 4. Lower reading of blood pressure category
- 5. A severe elevation (rise) in blood pressure that can lead to organ damage, including brain damage, heart attack, heart failure
- 6. Upper reading of blood pressure category
- 9. blood vessels that carry blood towards the heart.
- 11. blood vessels that deliver oxygen-rich blood from the heart to the tissues of the body