the System that circulates blood throughout the body.
What is the Cardiovascular System?
100
Bloop Pressure.
What is BP
100
A test that measures heart rate, blood pressure, and other body functions while the patient is exercising on a treadmill.
What is a Stress Test?
100
Sudden stopping of the heart, also called an asystole.
What is a Cardiac Arrest?
100
Implantation of the heart of a person who has just died into a person whose diseased heart cannot sustain life.
What is a heart transplant?
200
the art of the heart containing specialized tissue that sends electrical charges through the hearts fibers, causing the heart to contract and relax at regular intervals.
What is the conduction system?
200
Catheter
What is Cath
200
Production of images based on the echoes of sound waves against structures.
What is a Sonography?
200
triple sound of a heart beat, usually indicative of a serious heart disease.
What is a Gallop?
200
A structure (usually a vein graft) that creates a new passage for blood to flow from one artery to another artery or apart of an artery; used to create a detour around blockages in arteries.
What is a Bypass?
300
Resting state of the myocardial tissue in the conduction system of the heart.
What is polarization?
300
Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation
What is CPR?
300
Fatty substance present in animal fats; cholesterol circulates through the blood stream sometimes causing arterial plaque to form.
What is Cholesterol?
300
Abnormal accumulation of fluid in the lungs.
What is a Pulmonary Edema?
300
A surgical incision into an artery, especially to remove a clot.
What is Arteriotomy?
400
Region of the right atrium containing specialized tissue that sends electrical impulse to the heart muscle, causing it to contract.
What is a Sinoatrial Node?
400
Ateriosclerotic Cardiovascular Disease
What is ASCVD?
400
Process to listening to body sounds via a stethoscope.
What is Auscultation?
400
Spasm in the arteries of the fingers causing numbness or pain.
What is Raynaud's Phenomenon?
400
Surgical connection of two blood vessels to allow blood flow between them.
What is anastomosis?
500
A structure in a fetal circulatory system through which the blood flows to bypass the fetal liver.
What is a Ductus Venosus?
500
Coronary Artery Bypass Graft
What is CABG
500
A type of nuclear image that measures movement of area of the heart.
What is a Position Emission Tomography (PET scan)?
500
Formation of a thrombus in deep vein such as a femoral vein.