Across
- 3. Contracting phase of the cardiac cycle
- 4. medication class used for fluid removal
- 8. this nutrient should be limited in CVD diets
- 9. the electrical pacemaker of the heart
- 11. when the blood flows backward through diseased valves
- 12. the problem of feeling short of breath while lying flat
- 15. the most reliable symptom of excess fluid
- 17. Major artery that supplies the body with oxygenated blood
Down
- 1. when blood vessels increase in diameter
- 2. the heart chamber that pumps blood to the body
- 5. medical emergency complication of HF
- 6. when blood vessels decrease in diameter
- 7. excess fluid in the cells results in this
- 10. Thinner than arteries, return blood to the heart
- 13. Hypertension caused by genetics
- 14. Relaxation phase of the cardiac cycle
- 16. this illness is caused by uncontrolled HTN