The cardiovascular system

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Across
  1. 3. vascul(o) vessel
  2. 5. scan multiple X-ray images to create a cross-sectional image of your heart
  3. 6. A hardening or narrowing of the arteries
  4. 7. vessels that deliver blood to tissues
  5. 10. arteriole
  6. 15. snapshot of the heart and its surrounding structures
  7. 18. networks of small vessels that perfuse tissues
  8. 20. arteri(o) artery
  9. 21. pumps blood through the system
  10. 22. test laboratory analysis performed on a blood sample
Down
  1. 1. valvue prevent the retrograde flow of blood
  2. 2. Cardiovascular disease
  3. 4. sinus
  4. 5. MRI evaluating tumors or clots in the heart
  5. 6. x-ray useful for showing the size and shape of the heart
  6. 8. Percutaneous coronary intervention
  7. 9. blood pressure pressure of the blood flowing through the vessels is consistently too high
  8. 11. Electrocardiogram
  9. 12. Failure pumping action can't work effectively
  10. 13. poor blood flow to the brain causes cell death
  11. 14. vessels that return blood to the heart
  12. 16. Drug-eluting stent
  13. 17. abnormal heart rhythms
  14. 19. aorta
  15. 22. Bare metal stent