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- 4. these have thick walls and carry blood away from the heart.
- 5. hypertension abbrev.
- 8. hardening
- 12. stress test, a test that measures how well the heart performs under physical stress.
- 13. an ultrasound that creates images of the heart and assesses structure and function.
- 15. fast
- 17. these have thin walls and carry blood toward the heart.
- 20. a noninvasive medical test that measures the electrical activity of the heart
- 22. a muscular organ that creates rhythmic contractions and acts as a pump to circulate blood.
- 23. a disease of blood vessels supplying the arms and legs
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- 1. heart attack
- 2. narrowing
- 3. enlargement of the heart
- 6. enlarged
- 7. vena cava, One of the two largest veins in the body that supplies blood to the lower half of the body.
- 9. coronary artery disease abbrev.
- 10. hyperlipidemia abbrev.
- 11. peripheral artery disease abbrev.
- 14. hardening of the arteries
- 16. monitor, a device that is worn for 24 to 48 hours that detects arrhythmias.
- 18. slow
- 19. heart failure, a chronic condition in which the heart doesn't pump blood as well as it should.
- 21. congestive heart failure abbrev.
- 24. The largest artery in the body which carries blood as the main branch down the center of the body.
- 25. an invasive procedure that uses a catheter to eject inject dye into the coronary arteries to diagnose blockages in the artery.