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VOCABULARY CH 10
HEART
Question | Answer |
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ARTHEROSCLEROSIS | hardening of arteries characterized by fatty deposits building up within the innerlayers of the wall of larger arteries |
HYPERTENSION | elavated blood pressure persistently higher than 135/85 mmhg |
PULMONARY VEIN | one of four large veins that returns oxygenated blood from the lungs back to the left atrium of heart |
PULMONARY CIRCULATION | circulation of the deoxygenated blood from the rigt ventricle of the heart to the lungs for oxygention and back to the left atrium of the heart |
PULMONARY ARTERY | one of a pair of arteries that transports deoxygenated blood from the right ventricle of the heart to the lungs for oxygenation |
PITTING EDEMA | SWELLING USUALLY OF THE SKIN OF THE EXTREMITIES |
PERICARDIUM | DOUBLE MEMBRANOUS SAC THAT ENCLOUSES THE HEART AND ORIGINSOF GREAT BLOOD VESSELS |
SYTOLE | THE CONTRACTION PHASE OF THE HEART BEAT FORCING THE AORTA AND THE PULMONARY ARTERIES |
VASOCONSTRICTION | NARROWING OF THE LUMEN OF A BLOOD VESSEL |
ANEURYSM | LOCALIZED DILATION OF WEAKENED AREA OF THE WALL OF AN ARTERY |
INFARCTION | LOCALIZED AREA OF NECROSIS (DEATH) IN TISSUE, VESSEL, AN ORGAN |
DIASTOLE | PERIOD OF RELAXATION OF HEART |
MEDIASTINUM | AREA BETWEEN THE LUNGS IN THE CHEST CAVITY THAT CONTAINS THE HEART |
ENDOCARDITIS | INFLAMMATION OF THE INNER LINING OF THE HEART |
CLAUDICATION | CRAMPLIKE PAINS IN THE CALVES OF LEGS CAUSE BY POOR CIRCULATION TO MSCLES OF THE LEGS |
DEPENDENT EDEMA | A FLUID ACCUMULATION IN THE TISSUES INFLUENCED BY GRAVITY |
CORONARY ARTERY | ONE OF A PAIR OF ARTERIES THAT BRANCH FROM THE AORTA |
VEGETATION | AN ABNORMAL GROWTH OF TISSUE AROUND A VALVE |
MYOCARDIUM | MIDDLE MUSCULAR LAYER OF THE HEART |
SYSTEMIC CIRCULATION | THE CIRCULATION OF BLOOD FROM THE LEFT VENTRICLE OF THE HEART, THROUGHOUT THE BODY |
MURMUR | LOW PITCHED HUMMING OR FLUTTERING SOUND 'HEART MURMUR' |
SA NODE | PACEMAKER OF HEART |
SEPTUM | A WALL, OR PARTITION THAT DIVIDES OR SEPARATES TWO CAVITIES |
PALPITATION | POUNDING OR RACING OF THE HEART |
EDEMA | LOCALIZED OR GENERALIZED |
OCCLUSION | CLOSURE OR STATE OF BEING CLOSED |
PACEMAKER | SA NODE OF HTE HEART LACATED IN THE RIGHT ATRIUM |
DYSRHYTHMIA | ABNORMAL RHYTHM |
BRUIT | ABNORMAL SOUND OR MURMUR HEARD WHEN LISTENING TO A CAROTID ARTERY |
CUSP | ANY ONE OF THE SMALL FLAPS ON THE VALVES OF THE HEART |
HYPOTENSION | LOW BLOOD PRESSURE |