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MT CH10 Innes
Med term review
Question | Answer |
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Takes unoxygenated blood to lungs. | Pulmonary arteries |
Deoxygenated blood enters the heart through the... | Right Atrium |
The largest artery | Aorta |
Supply heart with blood. | Coronary arteries |
Middle muscle layer of heart | Myocardium |
Heart forcing blood out/allowing blood in | Systole/diastole |
.....Is severe pain and constriction about the heart, usually radiating from left shoulder and down left arm,creating feeling of pressure in chest | Angina pectoris |
inflammation of linin of valves and chambers of the heart. | endocarditis |
Another fancy pants name for a heart attack. | Myocardial Infarction |
Hardening of the arteries | arteriosclerosis |
One o' dem big 'ole fancy word that mean "high blood pressure" | Hypertension |
Congenital heart anomaly consisting of four defects: pulmonary stenosis, interventricular septal defect, dextoposition, and hypertrophy of right ventricle. | Tetralogy of Fallot |
The 6 places used to locate a pulse are called: | Temporal,radial,carotid, femoral, popliteal, brachial, dorsalis pedis |
Diagnostic x-ray, may be used to detect aneurysms of aorta, (uses Ionizing radiation) | Computed axial tomography (CAT) |
CT or CAT | Computed axial tomograph scan |
CVD | cardiovascular disease |
DOE | dyspnea on exertion |
ECG or EKG | electrocardiogram |
HDL | high-density lipoprotien |
LDL | Low-density lipoprotien |
Pacemaker of heart | sinoatrial node |
relays electrical impulses to | arterioventricular node |
Valve located between right atrium and right ventricle | tricuspid |
Inflammation of sac surrounding heart | pericarditis |
Localized dilation of artery | aneurysm |