Across
- 1. – Short for congestive heart failure
- 3. – Stands for blood pressure
- 4. – Prefix meaning heart
- 6. infarction – The medical term for a heart attack
- 8. – Suffix meaning blood condition
- 9. – Stands for heart rate
- 11. – Test that records the heart’s electrical activity
- 13. – Another name for high blood pressure
- 15. – Ultrasound test of the heart
- 17. – Test that uses sound waves to see organs
- 19. heart failure – When the heart can’t pump blood well
Down
- 1. – Tiny blood vessels where oxygen exchange happens
- 2. – Largest artery in the body
- 5. – Organ that pumps blood through the body
- 6. – Short for myocardial infarction
- 7. – Prefix meaning vessel
- 10. – Blood vessels that carry blood away from the heart
- 12. – Fat builds up in arteries
- 14. – Suffix meaning a record or picture
- 16. catheterization – Tube inserted into heart to check blood flow
- 18. – Blood vessels that carry blood back to the heart