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chapter 7 vocabulary
| word | meening |
|---|---|
| myocardial | heart muscle |
| myocardial infarction | heart attack |
| occusion | a blockage in a canal,vessel or passage of the body |
| capillary | the smallest blood vessels |
| arterioles | the smallest of the arteries |
| atria | the lower chamber of the heart |
| diuretic | agent used to reduce the blood volume |
| triglyceride | fatty substance in the body |
| lipiod | fatty substance in the body |
| antiarrhythmic | drugs used to correct an abnormal heart rhythm |
| homeostasis | equilibrum of the internal environment of the body |
| ischemia | temporary deficency of blood supply to any body part |
| vasodilation | an increase in the diameter of a blood vessel |
| phlebectomy | the surgical removel of a vein or part of a vein |
| fibrillation | severe cardiac arrhythmic in which contractions are to rapid for effective blood circulation |
| cardioversion | restoring hearts normal rhythm by applying a controlled electric shock to the exterior of the chest |
| murmur | soft blowing, fluttering sound in heart |
| tachycardia | rapid heart rate |
| myocarditis | inflammation of the heart muscle |
| pericarditis | inflammation of the pericardium |