Structure
Function
Procedure
Disease
Medical Language
100

The largest artery in the body

What is the aorta

100

What valve allows blood to leave heart and travel to lungs

pulmonary valve

100
Surgical procedures to remove a severly damaged heart from a patient with the end-stage heart failure and insert a new heart from the donor.
What is heart transplant
100

Extreme sweating

What is diaphoresis

100

What does the term CHF mean? 

what is congestive heart failure
200

What are the 2 major veins that carry blood to the heart? 

What is the superior and inferior vena cava

200

How many cusps are present in the mitral valve?

What is 2

200
Technique used during open heart surgery in which the patients blood is rerouted through a cannal in the femoral vein to a heart-lung machine
What is cardiopulmonary bypass
200
immflamation of a vein with the formation of a blood clot
What is thrombophlebitis
200
what is the normal range for heart rate? 

What is 60-100

300

the coronary arteries bring oxegenated blood to the

What is the heart

300

The sinoatrial node is known as

What is pacemaker of the heart

300
Procedure that uses a stethescope to listen to the heart sound
What is ausculation
300

When patient presents with bluish colorization of skin, nails and lips

What is cyanosis

300

The arrhythmia when hart beats faster than 100. 

What is tachycardia

400

These arteries bring deoxygenated blood to the lungs

What is pulmonary arteries

400
The four heart valves are
What is tricuspid, pulmonary, mitral, aortic
400
Procedure that records the electrical activities in the heart
What is EKG
400

this an area of weakness in the walls of the artery

What is aneurysm

400
An arrythmia where the heart beats to slowly
What is bradycardia
500

There are _____ chambers in the heart The small upper chamber is the ______ The large lower chamber is called the ______

What is 4, atrium, ventricle

500

This valve allows blood to leave heart and travel to systemic capillaries

What is aortic valve

500

When heat or cold is used to destroy cardiac tissue to create a more effective heart beat. 

What is ablation

500
An uncomfortable sensation during a premature contraction of the heart
What is palpitation
500

What is the term for when cardiac muscle is quivering?

What is fibrillation

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