Abbreviation
This short form stands for coronary artery disease.
What is CAD?
This condition means high blood pressure.
What is hypertension?
Oxygen-poor blood appears this color.
What is blue blood?
This artery supplies oxygen-rich blood to the brain.
What is the carotid artery?
This suffix in the word anemia means a condition of the blood.
What is -emia?
This is the common abbreviation for blood pressure.
What is BP?
This blood disorder results in a shortage of red blood cells.
What is anemia?
This gas is carried by red blood cells to body tissues.
What is oxygen?
This major artery runs through the thigh.
What is the femoral artery?
This suffix in the word arteritis means inflammation, often of a blood vessel.
What is -itis?
This abbreviation shows the percentage of oxygen in the blood.
What is SpO₂?
A heart attack is also called this.
What is myocardial infarction?
Arteries carry oxygenated blood away from this organ.
What is the heart?
This is the largest artery in the human body.
What is the aorta?
This suffix in the word tachycardia refers to something related to the heart.
What is -cardia?
This abbreviation stands for an electrical test of the heart.
What is ECG (or EKG)?
A stroke is caused by poor blood flow to this organ.
What is the brain?
This protein in red blood cells binds to oxygen.
What is hemoglobin?
These arteries deliver blood directly to the heart muscle
What are coronary arteries?
This suffix in the word hemolysis means the breakdown or destruction of red blood cells.
What is -lysis?
This stands for the heart's main pumping chamber.
What is LV?
This illness results from narrowed or blocked coronary arteries.
What is coronary artery disease?
This organ supplies oxygen to the blood.
What are the lungs?
Arteries carry blood in this direction relative to the heart.
What is away from the heart?
This suffix in the word angiogram refers to a record or image, especially of blood vessels.
What is -gram?