Structures
Word Elements
combining forms
Prefixes/Sufixes
Blood Vessels
100
the three main structures of the cardiovascular system
What are the heart, blood vessels, and blood
100
heart
What is cardi?
100
heart
What is cardi/o or card/o?
100
upon
What is epi-?
100
carry blood away from the heart
What is an artery?
200
the double-walled membranous sac that encloses the heart
What is is the pericardium?
200
blood vessels
What is vascul?
200
blood vessels
What is arteri/o and vas/o?
200
pertaining to
What is -ar?
200
smallest veins
What is a venule?
300
the external layer of the heart and inner layer of the pericardium
What is the epicardium?
300

red

What is erythr?

300
arteries
What is arteri/o?
300
within
What is endo-?
300
small branches of arteries
What is an arteriole?
400
the middle and thickest layer of the heart
What is is the myocardium?
400
ventricle
What is ventricul?
400
blood
What is hem/o and hemat/o?
400
deficiency
What is -penia?
400

smallest blood vessels

What are capillaries?

500
the inner lining of the heart consisting of epithelial tissue
What is the endocardium?
500
plaque
What is ather?
500
veins
What is phleb/o and ven/o?
500
abnormal condition
What is -osis?
500
pertaining to the inner portion of an artery or within an artery
What is endoarterial?
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