Prefixes
Suffixes
Word Roots
Anatomy
Illnesses
100
Abnormally slow
What is brady-?
100
A narrowing
What is -stenosis?
100
Blood
What is hem/o, hemat/o?
100
Blood vessels that carry oxygenated blood away from the heart
What are the arteries?
100
High blood pressure
What is hypertension?
200
Around, surrounding
What is peri-?
200
Dilation
What is -ectasis?
200
Muscle
What is my/o?
200
Blood vessels that return deoxygenated to the heart
What are the veins?
200
A resting pulse over 100
What is tachycardia?
300
Below normal
What is hypo-?
300
Inflammation
What is -itis?
300
Blood clot
What is thromb/o?
300
The heart's natural pacemaker
What is the sinoatrial (SA) node?
300
Too much plaque deposited within the arterial walls
What is atherosclerosis?
400
Three
What is tri-?
400
Surgical repair
What is -plasty?
400
Electrical
What is electr/o?
400
Blood vessels that connect the capillaries to the veins
What are the venules?
400
An abnormally low red blood cell count
What is anemia?
500
Away
What is ab-?
500
Cell
What is -cyte?
500
Crown
What is coron/o?
500
The opening of a blood vessel through which blood flows
What is the lumen?
500
Any heart disease
What is cardiopathy?
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