Across
- 2. Cardiovascular disease.
- 3. A test that is done while you are exercising.
- 4. Root word for small vessels.
- 7. Cardiac rhythm management
- 8. Any abnormal rhythm of the heart: too slow, too fast, or at an irregular beat or tempo.
- 10. Peripheral vascular disease
- 11. This reads your heart’s electrical impulses.
- 12. This gives a picture of your heart using ultrasound, a type of X-ray
- 16. Root word for heart.
- 17. Networks of small vessels that perfuse tissues.
- 20. Thin folds of the endocardium with a core of dense connective tissue.
- 22. Used to measure the substances and show if, and how much of, your heart muscle has been damaged.
- 23. Pumps blood through the cardiovascular system.
Down
- 1. Vessels that deliver blood to tissues.
- 2. A special dye is injected into your coronary arteries and an X-ray is taken.
- 5. The heart not pumping blood as well as it should.
- 6. Occurs because of blockage in a blood vessel that delivers blood and oxygen to the brain.
- 7. The term for diseases of the heart muscle.
- 9. Root word for aorta.
- 13. When the heart muscle is cut off from the oxygen it needs to operate.
- 14. Vessels that return blood to the heart.
- 15. Transient ischemic attack
- 18. Atrial fibrillation
- 19. Root word for disease.
- 21. Root word for artery.