Terms
The action of listening to sounds from the heart, lungs or other organs.
What is Auscultation?
Secretes insulin and glucagon
What is the pancreas?
Endocrine
Endo - within
crine - secrete or separate
Thym/o
What is Thymus?
What is CHF?
Congestive heart failure
A medical instrument for listening to the action of someones heart or breathing.
What is a Stethoscope?
Secretes estrogen and progesterone
What are Ovaries?
Adrenal
Ad - towards
renal - kidney
Ventricul/o
What are ventricles?
What is TSH?
Thyroid stimulating hormone
A condition in which the heart beats with an irregular or abnormal rhythm.
What is Arrhythmia?
Secretes Thymosin
What is Thymus?
Pericardium
Peri - around
cardium - heart
Valvul/o
What is a Valve?
What is FSH?
Follicle stimulating hormone
A blowing or whooshing sound heard during a heartbeat.
What is a heart murmur?
Helps to control body functions, such as growth, repair and reproduction.
What is Hormones?
Angioplasty
Angi/o - vessel
plasty - surgical repair
Parathyroid/o
What is a parathyroid gland?
What is Prolactin?
Affects milk secretion
An irregularity in the heart rhythm that originates at the sinus node.
What is Sinus Arrhythmia?
Secretes and releases inhibiting factors that affect the release of substances from the pituitary gland.
What is the hypothalamus?
Angiocardiography
Angi/o - Vessels
cardio - heart
graphy - procedure that records
Phleb/o
What are veins?
One drug is given to see if it suppresses the activity of the gland.
What is a Suppression test?