Across
- 2. Air sacs in the lungs where oxygen and carbon dioxide are exchanged.
- 4. An oily substance that occurs naturally in the body, in animal fats and in dairy products, and that is transported in the blood.
- 6. backward flow of blood through a defective heart valve.
- 8. Surgery that can improve blood flow to the heart by providing a new route.
- 10. A device that helps restore a normal heart rhythm by delivering a electric shock.
- 12. A procedure used to widen the opening of a heart valve that has been narrowed by scar tissue.
- 13. The rapid, ineffective contractions of any heart chamber. A flutter is considered to be more coordinated than fibrillation.
- 14. Abnormal slow heartbeat.
- 17. The thin membrane covering the outside surface of the heart muscle.
- 18. what circulates in the arteries and veins of humans?
- 23. The area of heart tissue permanently damaged by an inadequate supply of oxygen.
- 25. The odorless gas that is present in the air and necessary to maintain life.
- 27. an instrument used to measure blood pressure.
Down
- 1. Pertaining to the heart and blood vessels that make up the circulatory system.
- 3. The ring around a heart valve where the valve leaflet merges with the heart muscle.
- 5. heart failure is common in patients with________
- 7. one of the two lower chambers of the heart.
- 9. Either one of the heart’s two upper chambers.
- 11. The largest artery in the body and the main vessel to supply blood from the heart.
- 12. Pertaining to the heart.
- 15. a technique of applying an electric shock to the chest to convert an abnormal heartbeat to a normal rhythm.
- 16. Any one of a series of blood vessels of the vascular system that carries blood from various parts of the body back to the heart, returning oxygen-poor blood to the heart.
- 19. a vessel that carries oxygen-rich blood to the body.
- 20. An instrument for listening to sounds within the body.
- 21. a clot-dissolving medicine used to treat heart attack patients.
- 22. The area of the body between the bottom of the ribs and the top of the thighs.
- 24. The rapid, ineffective contractions of any heart chamber. A flutter is considered to be more coordinated than fibrillation.
- 26. A sac-like protrusion from a blood vessel or the heart, resulting from a weakening of the vessel wall or heart muscle.