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Medical Instruments
Medical Procedures
Anatomy of the Heart 1
Anatomy of the Heart 2
Miscellaneous
100
Instrument used to listen to the internal noises of the human body
What is a stethoscope?
100
Incision of a veim
What is a phlebotomy?
100
a device for controlling the passage of fluid through a pipe or duct, especially an automatic device allowing movement in one direction only.
What is a valve
100
Carries blood back to the heart.
What does a vein do?
100
Beat of the heart
What is a pulse?
200
Incision of a vessel
What is a valvotomy?
200
Artery carrying oxygen-poor blood from the heart to the lungs.
What is the pulmonary artery?
200
Largest vein that carries blood to the right atrium.
What is the vena cava?
200
Contraction phase of the heartbeat.
What is systole?
300
A balloon-tipped catheter that dilates a cardiac valve.
What is a valvuloplasty?
300
The flow of blood from the heart to the lungs and back to the heart.
What is pulmonary circulation?
300
One of the two lower chambers of the heart.
What is the ventricle?
300
smallest blood vessel
What is a capillary
400
A puncture into the vein and a start to intravenous infusion
What is venipuncture?
400
The valve positioned between the right ventricle and the pulmonary artery.
What is the pulmonary valve?
400
A small vein.
What is a venule?
400
faster than 100 beats per minute
What is tachycardia?
500
Instrument to measure blood pressure
What is a sphygmomanometer?
500
Surgical procedure of dilating a vein.
What is a vasodilation?
500
One of two pairs of vessels carrying oxygenated blood from the lungs to the left atrium of the heart.
What is the pulmonary vein?
500
pacemaker of the heart.
What is the sinoatrial node?
500
condition where a blood clot in a vein causes pain and inflammation.
What is thrombophlebitis?