Across
- 4. contrast dye is injected into blood vessels to diagnose things like narrowing or aneurysms
- 7. coronary artery disease (abbreviated)
- 12. thin walls that allow exchange of oxygen and nutrients
- 13. suffix meaning pressure
- 14. thin inner layer that lines each chamber of heart
- 20. thin walls that bring blood to heart
- 22. recording of hearts electrical activity
- 25. narrowing of arteries around the heart
- 27. x-ray dye is injected into vessels surrounding heart to show narrowing's, aneurysms, collect samples and detect heart pressure
Down
- 1. muscular layer that contracts to pump blood
- 2. prefix meaning too slow
- 3. also known as a heart attack
- 5. portable ECG machine worn over a few days to record heart activity
- 6. suffix meaning enlarged
- 8. swollen and painfully dilated veins
- 9. used to listen to chest, lungs and intestines
- 10. do not resuscitate (abbreviated)
- 11. prefix meaning too fast
- 12. congestive heart failure (abbreviated)
- 15. Outer layer of heart lining containing visceral pericardium
- 16. high blood pressure
- 17. thick walls that carry blood away from heart
- 18. coronary artery bypass graft (abbreviated)
- 19. prefix meaning physiology or related to nature
- 21. suffix meaning the surgical removal of
- 23. complete stoppage of heart
- 24. cardiopulmonary resuscitation abbreviated
- 26. acute myocardial infarction (abbreviated)