Word Parts
This word part means blood or lymph vessel.
What is angi/o?
This is the largest artery in the body.
What is the aorta?
The loss of the normal rhythm of the heartbeat.
What is arrhythmia?
Medication that dissolves or causes a thrombus to break up; also known as a clot-busting drug.
What is thrombolytic?
This blood disorder is characterized by this type of anemia in which the red blood cells are larger than normal
What is megaloblastic anemia?
This word part means artery.
What is arteri/o?
These are the upper chambers of the heart.
What are atrium?
A genetic disorder that causes abnormal hemoglobin, resulting in some red blood cells assuming an abnormal sickle shape that interferes with normal blood flow.
What is sickle cell anemia?
A diagnostic and treatment procedure in which a catheter is passed into a vein or an artery and is guided into the heart.
What is cardiac catheterization?
The systemic condition often associated with severe infections caused by the presence of bacteria in the bloodstream is known as
What is sepsis?
This word part means a mixture or blending.
What is -crasia?
This valve controls the opening between the upper right atrium and the lower right ventricle.
What is the tricuspid valve?
This cholesterol is also known as good cholesterol.
What is high-density lipoprotein cholesterol?
This is a class of drugs administered to lower high blood pressure.
What are antihypertensives?
This type of fibrillation, consists of rapid, irregular, and useless contractions of the ventricles. Instead of pumping strongly, the heart muscle quivers ineffectively.
What is ventricular fibrillation?
This word part means rapid or fast.
What is tachy-?
This chamber pumps the oxygen-poor blood through the pulmonary semilunar valve and into the pulmonary artery, which carries it to the lungs.
What is the right ventricle?
A record of the electrical activity of the myocardium.
What is electrocardiogram?
The diagnostic procedure that images the structures of the blood vessels and the flow of blood through these vessels is known as
What is duplex ultrasound?
This localized weak spot, or balloon-like enlargement, can appear in the wall of an artery.
What is an embolus?
What med term describes technique of mechanically widening a narrowed or obstructed blood vessel?
What is angioplasty?
This chamber receives oxygen-rich blood from the lungs through the four pulmonary veins. The blood flows out of the LA, through the mitral valve, and into the left ventricle.
What is the left atrium?
A peripheral arterial occlusive disease in which intermittent attacks are triggered by cold or stress.
What is Raynaud's disease?
A diagnostic test performed to evaluate how well blood flows through the coronary arteries of the heart muscle during exercise.
What is thallium stress test?
A type of cancer characterized by a progressive increase in the number of abnormal leukocytes (white blood cells) found in blood-forming tissues, other organs, and in the circulating blood.
What is leukemia?