Cardiovascular Conditions
Yellowish-brownish staining of skin & sclerae (whites of eyes) caused by high levels of bilirubin in blood.
What is jaundice?
"-cyte" means...
What is a cell?
What is connective tissue?
Number of chambers that make up the mammalian heart.
What are the four chambers?
Inability of right side to adequately pump venous blood into pulmonary circulation (lungs).
What is right heart failure?
Cancer of the blood or bone marrow characterized by an abnormal production of WBCs.
"Hemo/a-" means...
What is blood?
The three formed elements of blood.
What are platelets, white blood cells, and red blood cells?
Covers the outer surface of the heart; under the pericardium.
What is the epicardium?
Most common failure; heart muscle dies so it can’t pump efficiently or completely. The blood backs up and can’t leave the heart.
What is a heart attack?
Hemoglobin disorder caused by abnormally shaped RBCs; not enough functioning hemoglobin.
What is sickle cell anemia?
"-stasis" means...
What is halt or stop?
Cells that are the most numerous in blood and have no nucleus when mature.
What are red blood cells?
Muscle wall of the heart (forms both atria and ventricles) that contains blood vessels and nerves.
What is the myocardium?
Occurs during increased physical activity; many tissues and organs may not receive the oxygen they require for functioning at rest.
What is reduced blood flow to the body?
Continuous inflammation of the liver caused by hepatitis C. Creates the formation of scar tissue within the liver.
What is fibrotic liver?
"Leukos-" means...
What is white?
Fluid that makes up 55% of total blood volume; it transports nutrients and hormones.
What is plasma?
Fibrous valves that connect atria to ventricles and only permit blood flow in one direction.
What are atrioventricular valves?
Fluid in lungs or in the body, resulting from inadequate pumping from the heart and venous pressures.
What is congestive heart failure?
Disorder where fat, cholesterol, and other substances build up in the walls of arteries and form plaques; blood flow is reduced and clots may form.
What is atherosclerosis?
"-osis" means...
What is too many?
Protein molecule in red blood cells that is responsible for transporting O2 & CO2 to and away from tissues.
Large vein that returns deoxygenated blood from cardiac veins in the myocardium into right atrium.
What is the coronary sinus?
Inability of the heart to pump blood at a sufficient rate to meet O2 demands of the body at rest or during exercise.
What is forward heart failure?