The Cardiovascular System

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  1. 1. Abbreviation for Shortness of Breath
  2. 2. Abbreviation for Hypertension
  3. 3. a test that uses ultrasound to look at the heart and its vessels.
  4. 5. Prefix meaning disease
  5. 7. X-ray dye called contrast is injected into blood vessels to diagnose things like narrowing or aneurysms
  6. 9. known as high blood pressure
  7. 10. The main organ pumps the blood to the body
  8. 12. The middle layer of the heart wall
  9. 13. Prefix meaning fast
  10. 15. Known as an EKG
  11. 16. Complete stopping of the heart
  12. 18. used to measure certain items in the blood that may indicate heart muscle damage.
  13. 19. Abbreviation for Dyspnea on Exertion
  14. 21. The inner layer of the heart wall
  15. 22. part of the heart doesn’t get the blood flow it needs.
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  1. 1. instrument to measure pressure
  2. 4. Suffix meaning inflammation
  3. 6. Abbreviation for Mital Valve Prolapse
  4. 7. Prefix meaning artery
  5. 8. pericardial sac around the heart is inflamed.
  6. 11. The outer layer of the heart wall
  7. 14. Abbreviation for Congestive Heart Failure
  8. 16. Prefix meaning heart
  9. 17. Swelling of an artery due to a weak wall
  10. 20. Largest blood vessel in the body