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Ch 8 Med Vocb
Cardiovascular and Lymphatic Systems
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What term means excision of the adenoids | adenoidectomy |
| What term means a localized dilation or ballooning out of the wall of a blood vessel | aneurysm |
| What is the term for removal or resection of a vessel | angiectomy |
| The term for severe pain and constriction about the heart caused by an insufficient supply of blood to the heart itself | angina pectoris |
| What is the term for inflammation of the heart and great blood vessels | angiocarditis |
| What is the term for surgical repair of the blood vessels | angioplasty |
| The term for narrowing of the caliber of a vessel (pathology) | angiostenosis |
| What is the surgical formation of a new opeining into a blood vessel | angiostomy |
| What is the term for incision or severing of a blood or lymph vessel | angiotomy |
| The term for couteracting high blood pressure; and agent that reduces high blood pressure | antihypertensive |
| The term that is the main truck from which the systemic arterial system proceeds | aorta |
| The term meaning a narrowing or stricture of the aortic valve | aortic stenosis |
| What is the term that means radiography of the aorta after the injection of an opaque medium | aortography |
| What is the term for abnormal hardening of the aorta (pahtology) | aortosclerosis |
| The term for any variation from the normal rhythm of the heartbeat | arrhythmia |
| The term for a radiograph of an artery after injection of a raidopaque medium | arteriogram |
| What term means raidography of arteries after injectioon of raidopaque material into the bloodstream | arteriography |
| What is the term for a minute aterial branch | arteriole |
| The term for any arterial disease | ateriopathy |
| The term for the vessels that join arteries and capallaries | aterioles |
| The term for inflammation of the artery | arteritis |
| What is the term for cardiac arrest; absence of a heartbeat | asystole |
| What is the term for a common form of arteriosclerosis in which deposits of yellowish plaques are formed within the arteries | atherosclerosis |
| The term that means a cardiac arrhythmia characterized by disorganized electrical activity in the atria | atrial fibrillation |
| What term means a congential heart defect in which there is in opening between the atria | atrial spetal defect |
| What term means pertaining to an atrium of the heart and to a ventricle | atrioventricular |
| The term that menas a chamber; used in anatomy to designate a chamber affording enterance to another structure | atruim |
| What is the term for lymph nodes located in the axilla | axillary node |
| What is the term for slow heartbeat, as evidenced by slowing of the pulse rate to less than 60 beats per minute | bradycardia |
| What is the term for the passage of a small plastic tube into the heart through a blood vessel for the purpose of diagnosis of heart disorders | cardiac catheterization |
| The term menaing wall between the left and right sides of the heart | cardiac septum |
| The term that means compression of the heart as a result of the accumulation of blood or other fluid in the pericardial sac | cardiac tamponade |
| What is the term for a general diagnostic term designating primary disease of the heart muscle itself | cardiomypathy |
| What is the term meaning arrest of mycaridal contraction, as may be induced in perfomance of surgery on the heart | cardioplegia |
| What term is drugs thar are used to stop mycardial contractions so that surgery can be performed on the heart | cardioplegic solutions |
| What is inflammtion of the valves of the heart | cardiovalvulitis |
| What term means pertaining to the heart and blood vessels | cardiovascular |
| What is the restoration of normal heart rhythm by electrical shock | cardioversion |
| What is a flexible tube passed through body channels for withdrawal from or introduction of fluids into a body cavity | catheter |
| What term means the passage of a tubular | catheterization |
| What is the complete obstruction of an artery of the heart, usually from progressive atherosclerosis | coronary occlusion |
| Which term means development of an obstructive thrombus in a coronary artery | coronary thrombosis |
| Which term is the blueness of the skin and mucous membranes | cyanosis |
| Which terms is the termination of fibrillation, usually by electroshock | defibrillation |
| The term that means an apparatus used to stop fibrillation by application of brief | difibrillator |
| Which term means the relaxation of the heart | diastole |
| What menas pertaining to diastole | diastolic |
| What menas the disturbance of rhythm | dysrhythmia |
| Whch term meansthe record produced by echocardiography | echocardiogram |
| What is an abnormal accumulation of fluid in intercellular spaces in the tissues | edma |
| Which term means a tracing produced by the electrical impluses of the heart | electrocardiogram |
| What is the term meaning an instrument used to record the electrical current produced by the heart contractions | electrogcardiograph |
| Which term is the recording the electrical currents of the heart muscle | electrocardiography |
| What is the term for a clot or other plug brought by the bloodstream and forced into a smaller vessel where it lodges | embolus |
| What term means excision of the arteromatous tunica intima of an artery | endarterectomy |
| What is the term for inflammtion of the inner lining of the heart | endocarditis |
| What term means the membrane lining the inner surface of the heart | endocardium |
| What is the layer of serous pericardium on the surface of the heart | epicardium |
| What is the term for involuntary muscle contraction caused by spontaneous activation of single muscle cells or muscle fibers | fibrillation |
| What term means a rapid vibratin or pulsation | flutters |
| any localized collection of blood, usually clotted, in organ, tissue, or space | hematoma |
| an effusion of blood within the pericardium | hemopericardium |
| a type of ambulatory ECG monitor | holter monitor |
| increased blood pressure | hypertension |
| incomplete development or underdevelopment of an organ or tissue | hypoplasia |
| decreased blood pressure | hypotension |
| decreased volume of circulating blood in the body | hypovolemia |
| the formation of a localized area of necrosis caused by insufficient blood supply, produced by an occulation | infarction |
| one of several lymph nodes located in the groin | inguinal node |
| tissue fluid occupying spaces between tissue cells | interstitial fluid |
| deficiency of blood from functional constriction or actual obstruction of a blood vessel | ischemia |
| a fat | lipid |
| any of the lipid-protein complexes in which lipids are transported in the blood | lipoprotein |
| a transparent fludi found in lymphatic vessels consisting of a liquid portion and cells that are mostly lymphocytes | lymph |
| any of small knots of lymphatic vessels | lymph nodes |
| inflammation of a lymph node | lymphadenitis |
| inflammation of a lymphatic vessel (pathology) | lymphangitis |
| a system of vessels that collects tissue fluids from all parts of the body and returns the fluids to the blood circulation | lymphatics |
| a chronic edema of an extremity because of obstruction within the lymph vessels or the lymph nodes, resulting in accumulation of interstitial fluid | lymphedema |
| producing lymph; produced from lymph or in the lymphatics | lymphogenous |
| a roentogenogram of the lymphatic vessels and nodes after injection of raidopaue material (procedures) | lymphography |
| a median partition; an area in the middle of the chest that contains the heart and its large vessels, trachea, esophagus, thymus, and lymph nodes | mediastinum |
| a growth of pathogenic microorganisms or of abnormal cells distant from the site primarily involved by the morbid process | metastasis |
| pertaining to the muscular tissue of the heart | myocardia |
| inflammation of the heart muscle | myocariditis |
| the middle and thickest layer of the heart wall, made up of cardiac muscle | mycardium |
| death of tissue | necrosis |
| the act of closing or state of being closed; the relation of the teeth of both jaws during mandibular activity; and obstruction | occulsion |
| around the heart | pericardial |
| inflammtion of the pericardium | pericarditis |
| sac which encloses around the heart | pericardium |
| inflammation of the vein | phlebitis |
| the blood flow through the network of vessels between the heart and the lungs | pulmonary ciruclation |
| pertaining to a septum | septal |
| a node in the wall of the right atrium that is the source of impluses taht initiate the heartbeat | sinoatrial node |
| an instrument that is used to measure blood pressure in the arteries | sphygmomanometer |
| a large, glandlike organ situated in the upper left part of the abdominal cavity, which destroys erythrocytes at the end of their usefulness and serves as a blood reservoir | spleen |
| removal of the spleen | splenectomy |
| any disease of the spleen | slenopathy |
| suture of the spleen | splenorrhaphy |
| narrowing or structure of a duct or canal | stenosis |
| the contraction or period of contraction of the heart, especially of the ventricles | systole |
| pertaining to or produced by the systole | systolic |
| fast heartbeat; fast pulse | tachycardia |
| an aggregation of blood factors, primarily platelets and fibrin with entrapment of cellular elements, frequently causing vaxular obstruction at the point of its formation | thrombus |
| excision of the thymus gland | thymectomy |
| tumor derived from the elements of they thymus | thymoma |
| excision of the tonsils | tonsillectomy |
| excision of lymphoid tissue from the throat and nasopharynx (tonsils and adenoids) | tonsilloadeniodectomy |
| the visualization of deep structures of the body by recording the reflections of pusles of ultrasonic waves directed into the tissues | ultrasonography |
| inflammation of a valve or valvula, especially a vavel of the heart | valvulitis |
| causing dilation of the blood vessels (therapy ) | vasodilation |
| a vessel of the circulatory system in which blood flows toward the heart | vein |
| two large veins (venae cavae) that carry blood to the right side of the heart | vena cava |
| pertaining to the vein | venous |
| a small cavity or chamber, as in the brain or heart | ventricle |
| cardiac arrhythmia marked by rapid, uncoordinated and ineffective contraction of the ventricles | ventricular fibrillation |
| a minute vein; small vessles that collect blood from the capillaries and join to form veins (anatomy) | venule |
| ASHD | arteriosclerotic heart disease |
| AV, A-V | atrioventricular |
| CHF | congestive heart failure |
| MI | myocardial infarction |
| PVC | premature ventricular contraction |
| VSD | ventricular septal defect |
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