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Hodge Podge
100
means heart
What is cardi/o?
100
Largest artery
What is the aorta?
100
abnormal enlargement of the heart
What is cardiomegaly?
100
radioigraphic study of blood vessels
What is angiography?
100
rupture of the heart
What is cardiorrhexis?
200
means artery
What is arteri/o?
200
middle layer of the heart
What is the myocardium?
200
balloon-like enlargement of an artery
What is an aneurysm?
200
surgical repair of a heart valve
What is valvuloplasty?
200
pounding, racing heart
What is palpitation?
300
means white
What is leuk/o?
300
lining of the heart
What is the endocardium?
300
reduced blood supply to the heart
What is ischemia?
300
procedure that improves the blood supply to the heart muscle
What is a coronary bypass?
300
fatty substance that builds up on the walls of arteries
What is cholesterol?
400
means bursting forth
What is -rrhage?
400
outter sac around the heart
What is the parietal pericardium?
400
inflammation of a vein
What is phlebitis?
400
a procedure that uses electrical shock to restore the heart's normal rhythm
What is defibrillation?
400
controls bleeding
What is hemostasis?
500
means vein
What is phleb/o?
500
inner layer of the sac around the heart -
What is the visceral pericardium?
500
a foreign object circulating in the blood
What is an embolus?
500
test that measures electrical activity of the myocardium
What is an electrocardiography?
500
procedure that opens a partially blocked artery
What is a balloon angioplasty?