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99CNM Med Terms 6
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| algesia | sense of pain |
| angi/o | vessel |
| arteri/o | artery |
| cardiac arrest | stopped heart |
| dactyl/o | fingers |
| defibrillation | heart shocked to a regular heartbeat |
| embolism | obstruction of a blood vessel |
| embolus | foreign particle in the bloodstream |
| esthesia | feeling, sensation |
| fibrillation | very fast, irregular heartbeat |
| myel/o | spinal cord, bone marrow |
| phas/o | speech |
| phleb/o | vein |
| plas/o | formation |
| thrombosis | bloodclot occluding a vessel |
| thrombus | a blood clot |
| a- | absent |
| an- | without |
| dys- | bad, difficult, painful |
| -emia | blood |
| macro- | large |
| micro- | small, very small |
| poly- | many |
| sym- | together |
| syn- | together |
| -orrhexis | rupture, bursting apart |
| -tripsy | rubbing, crushing |