Root Words
Cardi/o
What is heart?
Endo-
What is within?
-Pathy
What is disease?
Name the 4 chambers of the heart.
What is the right atrium, right ventricle, left atrium, left ventricle?
What kind of blood do veins carry?
Deoxygenated
Ven/o
What is vein?
Epi-
What is upon or above?
-emia
What is blood condition?
Name the 4 valves of the heart.
What is the tricuspid valve, bicuspid valve, aortic valve, and pulmonary valve.
What kind of blood do the arteries carry
Oxygenated.
Hem/o/a
What is blood?
Hyper-
What is excessive or high?
-plasty
What is surgical repair?
What are the 4 main vessels of the heart?
What kind of blood is in the capillaries?
Deoxygenated and oxygenated
Vascul/o
What is blood vessel?
Tachy-
What is rapid?
-tomy
What is incision or cutting?
Where is the bicuspid valve located?
What is between and left atrium and ventricle?
What does blood transport
Nutrients and oxygen
What is pulse?
Peri-
-blast
What is immature?
What is the outermost layer of the heart?
What is the pericardium?
Where does the right ventricle pump blood?
The lungs