Lab vocab heart

Question 1

Angina

Answer 1

severe, often constricting pain; caused by reduced arterial blood to the myocardium, which reduces oxygen supplied to the myocardial cells; causes injury and ischemia and the sharp precordial pain directly related to cardiac ischemia; usually refers to angina pectoris

Question 2

Arrhythmia

Answer 2

loss of rythm; denotes especially an irregularity of the heartbeat

Question 3

Bradycardia

Answer 3

slow beating of the heart, usually at a rate of less than 60 beats per minute

Question 4

Bruit

Answer 4

a harsh or musical intermittent auscultatory sound, especially an abnormal one

Question 5

Palpitations

Answer 5

forcible or irregular pulsation of the heart, perceptible to the patient, usually with an increase in frequency or force, with or without irregularity in rhythm

Question 6

Tachycardia

Answer 6

rapid beating of the heart, conventionally applied to rates over 100 beats per minute