Prefixes
Suffixes
Cardiovascular A&P
Generic Names of Drugs
In our Blood
100
Prefix meaning varied or irregular?
What is Poikilo-
100
Suffix meaning formation or production?
What is -poiesis?
100
Vessel that carries blood from the right side of the heart to the lungs.
What is the pulmonary artery?
100
Percocet.
What is oxycodon?
100
Medical term for Red Blood Cell.
What is erythrocyte?
200
Prefix meaning below.
What is Infra-?
200
Suffix meaning acting on.
What is -tropic?
200
Fibrous sac that surrounds the heart.
What is the pericardium?
200
Benadryl.
What is diphenhydramine?
200
Medical term for blood platelet.
What is thrombocyte?
300
Prefix meaning dark or black.
What is Melan/o-?
300
Suffix meaning dissolving, reducing or loosening.
What is -lytic?
300
Valve between the left atrium and the left ventricle. AKA the left AV valve or bicuspid valve.
What is the Mitral Valve?
300
Keflex.
What is cepahlexin?
300
The protein that forms a clot in the blood coagulation process.
What is fibrin?
400
Prefix meaning left.
What is Sinister/o-?
400
Suffix meaning surgical creation of an opening.
What is -stomy?
400
A small mass in the upper part of the right atrium that initiates the impulse for each heartbeat.
What is the sinoatrial (SA) node?
400
Imodium.
What is loperamide?
400
A pigment derived from the breakdown of hemoglobin. It is eliminated by the liver in bile.
What is bilirubin?
500
Prefix meaning end.
What is Tel/o-?
500
Suffix meaning fissure or splitting.
What is —schisis?
500
Terminal fibers of the cardiac conducting system that carry impulses through the walls of the ventricles.
What are the Purkinjie fibers?
500
Lasix.
What is furosemide?
500
Medical term for the presence of potassium in the blood.
What is kalemia?
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