Across
- 4. condition of a slow heart
- 6. combining form for chest
- 8. a sign of lung cancer that means coughing up blood
- 10. your windpipe
- 12. procedure that removes plaque from inner lining of artery
- 16. device that provides respiratory assistance for patients unable to breathe
- 17. drugs used to increase airflow by dilating constricted airways in the lungs
- 20. progressive disease of the arteries usually caused by fatty plaque build up
- 23. rapid breathing
- 25. high-pitched sound that may indicate a serious airway obstruction
- 26. sac holding the heart
Down
- 1. combining form for artery
- 2. abbreviation for any disorder of the coronary arteries that affects blood delivery to myocardium
- 3. forming an opening in the trachea
- 4. plural form for bronchus
- 5. these heart chambers pump blood to the body
- 7. enlargement of the heart
- 9. one of the combining forms for heart
- 11. process of recording the electrical activity of the heart
- 13. narrowing of the aorta
- 14. drugs that break up clots
- 15. one of the combining forms for lung
- 18. collapsed condition of the lung
- 19. visual examination of the bronchi
- 21. surgical puncture of the chest
- 22. abbreviated O2
- 24. tiny sacs located at the end of the alveolar ducts
- 27. area of tissue that undergoes necrosis following cessation of blood supply
- 28. breathing at night repeatedly stops and starts: sleep _____
