Combing Forms
Pulmon/o
What is lung?
Layers that forms the outermost layer of the heart
What is the epicardium?
The valve preventing back flow to the right ventricles as it is pushed to the pulmonary artery?
What is the pulmonary valve?
What is the chamber on the bottom right?
What is the right ventricle
Condition of higher than normal blood pressure
What is hypertension?
Aort/o
What is aorta?
The fibrous sac surrounding the heart
What is the pericardium?
The valve preventing back flow to the right atria as blood is pushed to the right ventricle
What is the tricuspid valve?
The largest artery in the body
What is the aorta?
Abnormal whooshing sound created by a valve not completely closing?
Coron/o
What is heart?
The innermost layer that lines the four chambers of the heart
What is the endocardium?
The valve preventing back flow to the left ventricle as blood is pushed into the aorta
What is the aortic valve?
The large vessels that return the deoxygenated blood to the heart
What is the superior and inferior vena cava?
A blood clot that forms on the wall of a vessel and stays attached
What is a thrombus?
Sphygm/o
What is pulse?
The thickest layers, making up the middle of the heart
What is the myocardium?
The valve preventing back flow to the left atria has blood is pushed into the left ventricle
What is the bicuspid valve?
The vessel carries the blood from the heart to the lungs
What is the pulmonary artery?
Inflammation of the inner layer of the heart muscle
What is endocarditis?
Phelb/o
What is vein?
The space between the pericardium and the epicardium?
What is the pericardial cavity?
Divides the heart into the right and left heart
What is the septum?
The vessel that carries blood from the lungs back to the heart
What is the pulmonary vein?
Inflammation of a vein caused by the formation of a clot
What is thrombophlebitis?