ch 6 - cardiovascular system Flashcards
brady
slow
ech/o
using sound, ultrasound
end/o
inner
peri
surrounding
tachy
fast
angi/o
blood vessel
aort/o
aorta
arteri/o
artery
arteriol/o
smaller artery
ather/o
plaque
atri/o
small heart chamber
cardi/o
heart
carot/o, (Karoun)
plunge into sleep
coron/o
heart vessels
constrict/o
narrowing
cusp
point of a crescent, or where two arches meet
dilat/o
widening, enlargement
embol/o
embolus
emia
blood condition
fibr/o, fibril/o
fiber
furc/o
forking, branching
globin
protein
hem/o, hemat/o, heme
blood
isch/o
hold back
jugul/o
throat
lun/o
moon shaped
mitral
resembles a bishop’s mitre (hat)
ox/o, oxia
oxygen
palpit/o
throbbing, flutter
phleb/o
vein
rhythm/o
rhythm
semi
half
sept/o
partition
sphygm/o
pulse
steth/o
chest
suscitate
verb. to arouse, to excite, to call into life
ten/o
tension
thrombus
clot
valv/o, valvul/o
valve
vas/o
vessel
vascul/o
vessel
ventr/o, ventricul/o
ventricles of the heart
-ation
act of, process
-ia
condition
-iac
pertaining to
-ism
process, condition
-megaly
enlarge
-meter
meausre
-o/logist
specialist
-pathy
condition
-sclerosis
hardening
-sion, -tion
act of
BP
blood pressure
ECG/EKG
electrocardiogram
CAD
coronary artery disease
CPR
cardiopulmonary resuscitation
HBP
high blood pressure
agglutination
clumping together
albumin
the most abundant plasma protein
anastomosis
the union of parts or branches
angiocarditis
inflammation of the blood vessels of the heart
angiography
process of recording an x-ray picture of blood vessels
angioplasty
surgical repair or recanalization of a blood vessel
angiospasms
abnormally contraction of the blood vessels, primarily the arteries