Chapter 11-vocab Word Scramble
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Question | Answer |
What is inflammation of the vein due to a clot | Phlebitis |
An artery carrying oxygen-poor blood from the heart to the lungs. | Pulmonary artery |
One of two pairs of vessels carrying oxygenated from the lungs to the left atrium of the heart. | Pulmonary Vein |
A valve between the left atrium and the left ventricle. | Mitrial valve. |
A contraction phase of the heartbeat. | Systole |
Double-layered membrane surrounding the heart. | Pericardium |
the natural pacemaker of the heart. | SA Node(Sinoatrial node) |
Specialized tissuein the wall between the atria.Electrical impulses pass through this. | AV Node(Atrioventricular node) |
Specialized muscle fibers connecting the atria with the ventricles and transmitting electrical impulses between them. | Bundle of His |
Disease of the heart muscle. | Cardiomyopathy |
A local widening of an arterial wall. | Aneurysm |
Oxgenated blood enters the heart from the pulmonary veins. | left Atrium. |
A thin-walled upper chamber of the heart that recieves oxygen-poor blood from the vena cava. | Right Atrium. |
Blood that is forced through the mitral valve to where? | left ventricle. |
Blood that is forced through the tricuspid valve to where? | Right ventricle. |
What carries blood all over the body? It is the largest artey in the body. | Aorta |
A pain in the chest. | Angina |
A loss of normal flow of blood and tissues become deprived of oxygen. | Ischemia |
A bluish-color tinge to skin from lack of oxygen. | Cyanosis |
Pin-point hemorrhages. | Petechiae. |
affording free passage; being open and unobstruted | patent |
compact verson of an electrocardiograph is worn during a 24 hour period to detct cardiac arrhythmias. | holter monitor |
drug that increases the strength and regularity of the heartbeat. | digoxin |
pretaing to unknow cause of diease | idiopathic |
random, rapid, ineficient, irregular contractions of the artia on ventricles. | fibrillation |
deep vien thrombosis. | DVT |
instrument to measure BP. | spygmomanometer |
four separate defects of the heart occurring at birth. | tetralogy of Fallot |
chemicals measured in the blood as evidence of a heart attack. | serum enzymes |
echocardiography | ECHO |
incision of a vein for the removal of blood. | phlebotomy |
blood clot that is carried by the bloodstream from one area of the body to another where it blocks a blood vessel. | embolus |
relating to, being the coronary arteries or veins of the heart. | coronary |
relaxton phase of the heartbeat. | diastole |
swollen, twisted varicose veins in the rectal region. | hemorrhoid |
widening of a blood vessel; vasodilation. | vasodilation |
smallest blood vessel. | capillary |
small artery. | arteriole |
valvelocated between right atrium and right ventricle. | tricuspid valve |
second largest vein, returns blood to the right atrium of the heat from upper half of body. | superior vena cava. |
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