From the beginning to the end
It's the prefix meaning inside when referring to the lining of the heart
What is "endo"?
A rapidly beating heart rate.
What is tachycardia?
Tach//i/y: fast
Atri/o
What is atrium?
What is blood pressure?
The cardiovascular system includes the heart and these organs.
What is lungs.
The thick middle layer of cardiac muscle is distinguished by added the use of this prefix meaning muscle.
What is MYOcardium?
(Myo for muscle)
True or false:
The pulmonary veins are carry deoxygenated blood?
What is False?
The pulmonary veins return oxygenated blood to the heart from the lungs to be pumped out through the aorta and via arteries to tissues of the body.
Ventricul/o
What is ventricle?
This is the name for the accumulation of fatty deposits in the lining of a vessel.
What is atherosclerosis?
This type of vessel carries blood away from the heart.
What is an artery.
The -itis in phlebitis refers to this in a vein.
What is inflammation?
A closing off or obstruction, as in a blood vessel.
What is an occlusion?
phleb/o
What is vein?
This is the term for an upper chamber of the heart.
What is atrium.
These smallest blood vessels are named for their small, hair-like appearance.
What are capillaries?
If its not an inner lining of the heart, then it must be the outside thin covering of the heart which uses what prefix combined with the root "cardi" and suffix "um".
What is "epi"?
Thromb/o
What is clot?
The valve that maintains forward momentum of blood flow through the right atrium to the right ventricle may be shaped like a minuteman's cap, but is only the 1st of four valves blood flow entering through the vena cava will encounter before leaving the heart through the aorta.
What is the tricuspid valve?
Four valves are: tricuspid, pulmonary, mitral (bicuspid), aortic valves
A superficial vein returns blood to the heart from this portion of the body?
What is head and upper portion of body?
These prescriptions help prevent blood clots.
What are anticoagulants?
anti= against
coagul/o= clotting
This is the medical term often referred to as a heart attack.
What is a myocardial infarction?
-pnea
What is breathing?
This medical intervention destroys a part of the electrical conduction pathway of the cardiac system.
What is an ablation?
An obstruction of a blood vessel by a clot OR another matter carried by circulatory system.
What is embolism?
Embolus is a mass carries into circulation. May be a blood clot (thrombus) or other solid matter from within or outside of the body.