Anatomy
Ventricular
What is pertaining to a ventricle?
Blood vessels that carry blood away from the heart.
What are arteries?
Arteriosclerosis
What is narrowing of the arteries?
EKG or ECG
What is electrocardiogram?
Arrhythmia.
What is the inability of the heart to maintain regular rhythm?
The heart is enclosed in a sac.
What is the pericardium?
Necrosis
What is the death of the tissue?
Elevated blood pressure
What is hypertension?
A life saving emergency treatment to restart the heart.
What is defibrillation?
Angioplasty
What is the surgical repair of an artery.
The blood vessel that carries oxygenated blood back to the heart.
What are the pulmonary veins?
Fibrillation
What is abnormally rapid, uncoordinated quivering of the myocardium?
Hyperlipidemia
What is elevated levels of fatty substances in the blood.
The infusion of enzymes to destroy blood clots within a blood vessel.
What is thrombolysis?
Sphygmomanometer
What is a blood pressure cuff?
The pacemaker of the heart.
What is the sinoatrial node?
A intravenous mass that dislodges from one part of the circulation and causes a blockage in another area.
What is an embolism?
The abnormally slow blood flow in the veins.
What is venostasis?
A device left in the artery after angioplasty to hold the artery open following the proceedure.
What is a stent?
The pressure of blood flow when the heart contracts.
What is systole?
A localized abnormal dilation of a blood vessel.
What is aneurysm?
Diaphoresis
What is profuse sweating?
CAD
What is coronary artery disease?
Endarterectomy
What is the removal of fatty deposits within an artery?
Chest pain usually due to lack of oxygen to the myocardium.
What is angina?