Across
- 5. Prefix meaning before/from or in front of
- 9. Suffix meaning pain
- 10. The medical term for a heart attack
- 14. abbreviation for a portable, life saving device designed to treat people experiencing sudden cardiac arrest
- 15. abbreviation for the medical name for a heart attack
- 16. A test where the patient is asked to walk on a treadmill or ride a bicycle to increase how hard the heart rate
- 19. Vessels that deliver blood to tissues
- 20. A test where leads are attached to the chest
- 22. Vessels that return blood to the heart
- 24. High blood pressure
- 25. A portable ECG machine that patients wear over a period of few days
Down
- 1. Combining word for plug or blockage
- 2. Networks of small vessels the perfuse tissues
- 3. A procedure using x-ray dye and a catheter
- 4. Pumps blood through the system
- 6. A test that is used to measure certain items in the blood may indicate heart muscle damage
- 7. suffix Surgical puncture to remove fluid
- 8. A disorder in which there is a narrowing in the arteries surrounding the heart
- 11. abbreviation for atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease
- 12. abbreviation for a disease that develops when the major blood vessels that supply the heart become damaged or diseased
- 13. The complete stopping of the heart
- 17. A condition in which the pericardial sac around the heart is inflamed
- 18. A condition in which an artery has a weakened wall that causes it to swell
- 21. abbreviation for a condition that occurs when the heart muscle doesn't pump blood as well as it should
- 23. prefix meaning under or insufficient