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circulatory system
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| ACLS | advance cardiac life support |
| AED | automated external defibrillator |
| AF, AFIB, AT, FIB, | atrial fibrillation |
| AIVR | accelerated idiventrical rhythm |
| AMI | acute myocardial infarction |
| ASCVD | arteriosclerotic cardiovascular disease |
| ASD | atrial septal defect |
| ASHD | arteriosclerotic heart disease |
| AV, V-A | artrioventricular arteriovenous |
| AVB | artrioventricular block |
| AVD | aortic valve disease |
| AVR | aortic valve replacement |
| AVS | arteriovenouse shunt |
| BBB | bundle brance block |
| BCLS | basic cardiac life support |
| BP | blood preassure |
| Anemia | is an inadequate number of red blood cells |
| iron deficiency anemia | result when there is an inadequent amount of iron to form hemoglobin in erythrocytes |
| aplastic anemia | is a result in injury to or destruction of the bone marrow |
| pernicious anemia | result in the formation of abnormally large and an inadequate number of erythrocytes |
| sickle cell anemia | is a chronic inherited anemia |
| anerysm | is a ballooning out of the saclike formation on |
| arteriosceloris | is a hardening or thickening of the arterial walls |
| athrosceloris | occurs when fatty plaques |
| congestive heart faliure | is a condition that occurs when the heart muscle do not beat |
| an embolus | is a foreign substance circulatory in the bloodstream |
| hemophilia | is an inherited disease that occurs almost exclusively in males |
| hypertension | is hight blood preassure |
| leukemia | is a mallgnant disease of the bone marrow or lymh tissue |
| myocardial infraction | or heart attack occures when blockage in the coronary arteries |
| infarct | the affected tissue dies and is known |
| phlebitis | is an inflamation of a vein frequently in the leg |
| thrombophlebits | isa thrombus or clot forms the condition |
| vericose veins | are dilated, swollen veins that have lost elasticity |