JCrilly - The Cardiovascular System

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Across
  1. 2. a test that uses ultrasound to look at the heart and its vessels
  2. 5. a prefix that means many
  3. 7. a root word that means heart
  4. 11. the largest artery in the body that carries blood as the main branch down the center of the body
  5. 13. a condition in which an artery has a weakened wall, causing it to swell, like a balloon
  6. 17. a prefix that means fast
  7. 18. a test used to record the electrical activity of the heart, which helps check heart rhythm
  8. 19. a tool used to listen for the sounds of the heart, lungs, and intestines
  9. 20. a root word that means blood vessel
  10. 21. a suffix that means pressure
  11. 23. a complete stopping of the heart
  12. 24. a condition in which there is increased pressure in the blood vessels
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  1. 1. an abbreviation that means blood pressure
  2. 3. an abbreviation that means history of
  3. 4. an abbreviation that means echocardiogram
  4. 5. a condition in which the pericardial sac around the heart is inflamed
  5. 6. a fist-sized organ that pumps blood throughout your body
  6. 8. a procedure where contrast is injected into blood vessels to diagnose things like stenosis or aneurysms
  7. 9. have thick walls and carry oxygen-rich blood away from the heart
  8. 10. an abbreviation that means beats per minute
  9. 12. swollen and dilated veins
  10. 14. a tool used to measure blood pressure
  11. 15. have thin walls and carry oxygen-poor blood toward the heart
  12. 16. any of the fine branching blood vessels that form a network between the arterioles and venules
  13. 22. an abbreviation that means coronary artery bypass graft