Root Words
sense of pain
algesia
feeling, sensation
asthenia
vein
phleb/o
absent, without
a-, an-
many
poly-
vessel
angi/o
heart shocked to a regular heartbeat
defibrillation
speech
phas/o
brady-
together
sym-, syn-
arteri/o
artery
obstruction of a blood vessel
embolism
formation
plas/o
large
macro-
blood
-emia
cardiac arrest
stopped heart
very fast, irregular heartbeat
fibrillation
spinal cord, bone marrow
myel/o
fast
tachy-
rubbing, crushing
-tripsy
dactyl/o
fingers
foreign particle in the bloodstream
embolus
blood clot occluding a vessel
thrombosis
bad, difficult, painful
dys-
rupture, bursting apart
-orrhexis