Pharm Lesson 19 Word Scramble
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Question | Answer |
Antiarrhythmic agents | Drugs that control or prevents cardiac irregularities |
Anticoagulants | Medications used to prevent formation of clots or decrease the extension of existing clots in such conditions as venous thrombosis, pulmonary embolism, and coronary occlusion |
Antihypertensives | Medications used in the treatment and management of all degrees of hypertension |
Antilipemic | Drug that lowers the serum cholesterol and low-density lipoproteins (LDLs) and increases the high |
Antithrombotic agents | Agents that interfere with or prevent thrombosis (clot formation) |
Bradycardia | Abnormally slow heartbeat |
Cardiac glycosides | Medication used primarily in the treatment of heart failure |
Coronary heart disease (CHD) | Narrowing of the coronary arteries usually as a result of atherosclerosis |
Coronary vasodilators | Medications used in the treatment of angina |
Heart failure | The inability of the heart to circulate blood effectively enough to meet the body’s metabolic needs |
Hematopoiesis | Production of blood cells, normally in bone marrow |
Hypertension | High blood pressure |
Hypotension | Low blood pressure |
Ischemia | Holding back of the blood; local deficiency of blood supply due to obstruction of circulation to a part (for example heart or extremities) |
Platelet inhibitor | A drug that inhibits platelet aggregation (clumping) to prevent clots |
Tachycardia | Abnormally fast heartbeat |
Thrombolytic agents | Medications used to dissolve clots after they have formed |
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