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True or false: A cardiologist is a specialist that treats disorders of the heart.
What is true.
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True or false: Venotomy refers to drawing blood.
What is false. (Phlebotomy refers to drawing blood.)
100
Which is the correct spelling: angitis or angiitis?
What is angiitis.
100
What is the medical term for the surgical removal of an aneurysm?
What is aneurysmectomy.
100
True or false: Palpitations are normal, and they occur as a result of stress or exercise.
What is true.
200
What does the abbreviation ICU stand for?
What is intensive care unit.
200
What is the medical term for a localized weak spot or balloon-like enlargement of the wall of an artery?
What is aneurysm.
200
Which chambers of the heart are the main pumping chambers?
What is ventricles.
200
What is the medical term for abnormal elevation of blood pressure?
What is hypertension.
200
True or false: A hemangioma is a malignant tumor made of newly formed blood vessels.
What is false. (benign, not malignant)
300
Which blood vessels return blood to the heart?
What is veins.
300
What is the medical term that means inflammation of the inner layer of the heart?
What is endocarditis.
300
What is the medical term for the introduction of blood or blood components into the bloodstream?
What is transfusion.
300
What is the medical term for the use of an electrical shock to restore the heart’s normal rhythm?
What is defibrillation.
300
What is another more commonly used term for myocardial infarction?
What is heart attack.
400
What medical term means irregularity or loss of normal rhythm of the heart?
What is arrhythmia.
400
What medical term means pertaining to the heart and blood vessels?
What is cardiovascular.
400
What medical term means a blood clot that is attached to the wall of a vessel?
What is thrombus.
400
Tachycardia occurs when the heart is beating at least how many beats per minute?
What is 100 beats per minute.
400
What is the medical term for the sac that encloses the heart?
What is pericardium.
500
What is the medical term for rapid, ineffective contractions of the heart?
What is fibrillation.
500
What is the medical term for the death of the walls of the blood vessels?
What is angionecrosis.
500
What is the medical term for a foreign object circulating in the blood?
What is embolus.
500
What is the medical term for a lower than normal level of red blood cells?
What is anemia.
500
What is the medical term for an abnormal increase in the number of red blood cells?
What is erythrocytosis.