Anatomy
Physiology
Diseases
Procedures
Terms
100

Ventricular

What is pertaining to a ventricle?

100

Blood vessels that carry blood away from the heart.

What are arteries?

100

Arteriosclerosis

What is narrowing of the arteries?

100

EKG or ECG

What is electrocardiogram? 

100

Arrhythmia.

What is the inability of the heart to maintain regular rhythm?

200

The heart is enclosed in a sac.

What is the pericardium?

200

Necrosis

What is the death of the tissue?

200

Elevated blood pressure

What is hypertension?

200

A life saving emergency treatment to restart the heart.

What is defibrillation?

200

Angioplasty

What is the surgical repair of an artery.

300

The blood vessel that carries oxygenated blood back to the heart.

What are the pulmonary veins?

300

Fibrillation 

What is abnormally rapid, uncoordinated quivering of the myocardium?

300

Hyperlipidemia

What is elevated levels of fatty substances in the blood.

300

The infusion of enzymes to destroy blood clots within a blood vessel.

 What is thrombolysis?

300

Sphygmomanometer

What is a blood pressure cuff?

400

The pacemaker of the heart.

What is the sinoatrial node?

400

A intravenous mass that dislodges from one part of the circulation and causes a blockage in another area.

What is an embolism?

400

The abnormally slow blood flow in the veins.

What is venostasis?

400

A device left in the artery after angioplasty to hold the artery open following the proceedure.

What is a stent?

400

The pressure of blood flow when the heart contracts.

What is systole?

500

A localized abnormal dilation of a blood vessel.

What is aneurysm?

500

Diaphoresis

What is profuse sweating?

500

CAD

What is coronary artery disease?

500

Endarterectomy

What is the removal of fatty deposits within an artery?

500

Chest pain usually due to lack of oxygen to the myocardium.

What is angina?