Vessels that carry oxygen-rich blood away from the heart.
What are arteries?
100
A condition in which the body does not have sufficient health red bloods cells to care oxygen.
What is anemia?
100
A test that uses sound waves to create a moving picture of the heart. The picture is much more detailed than a plain x-ray image and involves no radiation exposure.
What is an echocardiogram?
100
Any disorder of your heart rhythm. Heart beating too fast, too slow or with an abnormal electrical pattern.
What is an arrhythmia?
100
A combination of rescue breathing and chest compressions delivered to individuals thought to be in cardiac arrest.
What is CPR or cardiopulmonary resuscitation?
200
They say this organ breaks when someone you loves leaves you.....
What is the heart?
200
Abnormal sounds during the heartbeat. Makes a whooshing sound.
What is a heart murmur?
200
A test that records electrical signals from your heart onto a paper strip. The pattern of these signals can help tell the doctor whether your heart is working normally, under stress or experiencing problems.
What is an electrocardiogram?
200
Chest pain or discomfort that occurs when the heart does not get enough blood.
What is angina or chest pain?
200
A condition in which the heart can no longer pump enough blood to the rest of the body.
What is congestive heart failure?
300
Largest artery in the body?
What is the aorta?
300
Blood vessels that feed the heart muscle are blocked, preventing oxygenated blood from getting to the heart.
What is a myocardial infarction or heart attack?
300
A technique used to dilate an area of arterial blockage with the help of a catheter that has an inflatable small sausage-shaped balloon at its tip.
What is balloon angioplasty?
300
An obstruction in a blood vessel due to a blood clot or other foreign matter that gets stuck while traveling through the bloodstream
What is an embolism?
300
A machine that continually records the heart's rhythms. The machine is usually worn for 24-48 hours during normal activity.
What is a Holter Monitor?
400
Chamber of the heart that pumps oxygen-rich blood to the body....
What is the left ventricle?
400
An interruption to the blood supply to any part of the brain. Can be hemorrhagic or ischemic.
What is a cerebrovascular accident or stroke?
400
Blood test that determines the exact amounts of
each type of blood cells present in a sample: red blood cells, white blood cells and platelets.
What is a complete blood count or CBC?
400
A condition in which fatty material collects along the walls of the arteries. This material hardens and may eventually block the arteries.
What is atherosclerosis?
400
A surgical procedure that restores blood flow to the heart muscle by diverting the flow of blood around the blocked artery in the heart.
What is bypass surgery?
500
Heart valve that ushers blood from the right ventricle into the lungs to be oxygenated.
What is the pulmonary valve?
500
A balloon-like bulge in an artery caused by a weakening of the artery wall.
What is an aneurysm?
500
Used to gather information about how well your heart works during physical activity. Because exercise makes your heart pump harder and faster than it does during most daily activities, an exercise stress test can reveal problems within your heart that might not be noticeable otherwise.
What is a stress test?
500
An episode in which a person has stroke-like symptoms for1 to 2 hours. It happens when a blood clot blocks a blood vessel in the brain for a brief time.
What is a TIA or transient ischemic attack?
500
Fats that travel in the bloodstream and can cause blockages.