Circulatory System
The Heart
Medical Terminology
100
The largest artery in the body
What is the Aorta?
100
The valve between the left atrium and left ventricle that prevents the backflow of blood.
What is the mitral valve?
100
Myo
What is muscle?
200
The thick muscle layer of the heart.
What is the myocardium?
200
This is the largest chamber of the heart.
What is the left ventricle?
200
Hepat(o)
What is the liver?
300
The hollow space inside a blood vessel.
What is the lumen?
300
The vessel that carries oxygen-poor blood from the right vent to the heart.
What is the Pulmonary Artery.
300
Hemat(o)
What is blood?
400
The upper chambers of the heart.
What are the atria?
400
The large vein that carries oxygen-poor blood to the right atrium from the lower part of the body.
What is the Inferior Vena Cava?
400
Erythr(o)
What is red?
500
The heart disorder that causes a build-up of fluid in the lungs.
What is congestive heart failure?
500
Necrosis of the heart muscle due to a lack of oxygen.
What is a myocardial infarction?
500
Cyst(o)
What is bladder?
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