heart disorders

Question 1

irregularity in the heartbeat

Answer 1

arrhythmias

Question 2

turbulent blood flow through a defective valve makes this sound

Answer 2

murmur

Question 3

a healthy heart had 60-100 of these a minute

Answer 3

beats

Question 4

coronary heart disease is due to …. supply of blood to the heart

Answer 4

restricted

Question 5

the surgeon does this when he joins a piece of vein to the heart

Answer 5

grafts

Question 6

a completely new heart

Answer 6

transplant

Question 7

insufficient …and smoking can contribute to heart disease

Answer 7

exercise

Question 8

a gripping angina chest pain sometimes … down the arms

Answer 8

radiates

Question 9

air or liquid are used to …the balloon in angioplasty

Answer 9

inflate

Question 10

the opposite of widening

Answer 10

narrowing

Question 11

complete stoppage of the heart

Answer 11

cardiac arrest

Question 12

inflammation of the heart muscle

Answer 12

myocarditis

Question 13

tachycardia is a rapid

Answer 13

heartbeat

Question 14

death of a muscle due to lack of blood

Answer 14

infarction

Question 15

battery-operated device to make the heart beat normally

Answer 15

pacemaker

Question 16

… veins are caused by defective valves in deep lower leg veins.

Answer 16

varicose veins

Question 17

Angina pectoris chest pains are usually brought on by

Answer 17

exertion

Question 18

Platelets and blood cells which collect on one site will cause this

Answer 18

clot

Question 19

It thickens arterial walls and narrows the artery

Answer 19

plaque