MA Anatomy and Physiology Terms
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| Aneurysm | show 🗑
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| show | Fatty deposits building up within the inner layers of the walls of larger arteries. Hardening of the arteries. A form of arteriosclerosis.
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| Bruit | show 🗑
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| show | Cramplike pain in the calves caused by poor circulation to the muscles of the legs. Associated with atherosclerosis.
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| Coronary artery | show 🗑
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| Cusp | show 🗑
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| Dependent edema | show 🗑
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| Diastole | show 🗑
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| Dysrhythmia | show 🗑
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| show | The localized or generalized collection of fluid within the body tissues (interstitial) causing area to swell.
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| show | Inflammation of the inner lining of the heart.
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| show | Elevated blood pressure persistently higher than 135/85 mmHg; aka arterial hypertension.
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| show | Low blood pressure. Less than normal.
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| Infarction | show 🗑
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| Mediastinum | show 🗑
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| show | A low-pitched humming or fluttering sound, as in a "heart murmur" heard on auscultation.
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| Myocardium | show 🗑
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| show | Closure, state of being closed.
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| show | The SA node (sinoatrial) of the heart located in the right atrium. Initiates heartbeat, influences the rate and rhythm of the heartk beat. An artificial pacemaker can be implanted that maintains the normal rhythm by electrically stimulating contraction.
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| Palpitation | show 🗑
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| Pericardium | show 🗑
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| Pitting edema | show 🗑
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| Pulmonary artery | show 🗑
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| show | The circulation of deoxygenated blood from the right ventricle of the heart to the lungs for oxygenation and back to left atrium. ~Heart~Lungs~Heart
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| show | 4 large veins (2 each lung) transports oxygenated blood from the lungs back to the left atrium of the heart. Only oxygenated blood carrying veins.
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| show | Pacemaker of the heart. Sinoatrial node located in the right atrium. Initiates the heartbeat, influences heart rate and rhythm.
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| show | The wall that divides or seperates two cavities. Interatrial, atrioventricular, interventricular.
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| show | The circulation of blood from left ventricle of heart throughout the body and back to right atrium.
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| Systole | show 🗑
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| Vasoconstriction | show 🗑
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| show | An abnormal growth of tissue around a valve.
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| show | Loss of Appetite.
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| Anxiety | show 🗑
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| Bradycardia | show 🗑
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| show | Feeling of discomfort in the chest area.
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| Cyanosis | show 🗑
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| show | Air hunger resulting in labored or difficult breathing, sometimes painful.
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| show | Feeling of tiredness or weariness resulting from continued activity or as a side effect from some psychotropic drug.
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| show | Elevation of temperature above the normal.
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| Headache | show 🗑
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| show | Unpleasant sensation, usually preceding vomiting.
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| show | Lack of color; paleness.
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| show | Perspiration. Liquid secreted by the sweat glands.
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| show | Abnormally rapid heart rate, usually a rate over 100 bpm.
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| show | Ejection of gastric contents through the mouth.
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| Weakness | show 🗑
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| show | Pressure to severe, agonizing pain, caused by insufficient blood supply to the myocardium.
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| show | Disease of the heart muscle itself, affecting the pumping ability results in enlargement of the heart.
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| show | Condition characterized by weakness, breathlessness, abdominal discomfort. Edema in the lower portions of the body resulting from blood flow through the vessels being slowed.
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| show | Narrowing of the coronary arteries to the extent that adequate blood supply to myocardium is prevented.
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| Endocarditis | show 🗑
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| Mitral valve prolapse | show 🗑
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| Myocardial infarction | show 🗑
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| show | Inflammation of the myocardium.
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| show | Inflammation of the percardium (the membrane that covers the heart muscle)
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| show | Inflammatory disease that may develop as a delayed reaction to insufficiently treated group A Strep infection of the upper respiratory tract.
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| show | Thickening, hardening, and loss of elasticity of the walls of arteries. aka Hardening of the arteries.
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| show | No single known cause. 90% of all hypertension.
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| show | Caused by complications from a primary cause such as pregnancy or kidney disease.
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| Malignant hypertension | show 🗑
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| Raynaud's phenomenon | show 🗑
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| show | Inflammation of a vein associated with the formation of a thrombus.
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| show | Enlarged, superficial veins; a twisted, dilated vein with imcompetent valves.
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| show | Abnormal circulatory condition characterized by decreased return of venous blood from the legs to trunk of body.
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| Atrial flutter | show 🗑
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| Atrial fibrillation | show 🗑
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| show | Condition which results in rapid, tremulous and ineffectual contractions of the ventricles. (no heartbeat, no palpable pulse, no respirations or blood circulating.
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| show | X-ray of the internal anatomy of the heart and blood vessels using a contrast medium injected into an artery or vein.
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| show | Diagnostic procedure in which a catheter in introduced into a lare vein or artery and threaded through the circulatory system to the heart.
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| show | Blood obtained by venipuncture to determine the presence of damage to the myocardial muscle. Enzymes will be elevated 4-6 hrs after an attack and would peak at 18-24 hrs.
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| Echocardiography | show 🗑
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| show | Graphic record of the electrical action of the heart as reflected from various angles to the surface of the skin; EKG or ECG.
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| Event monitor | show 🗑
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| Exercise stress testing | show 🗑
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| Holter monitoring | show 🗑
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| show | Small, lightweight, electronic device placed under the skin or muscle in chest or abdomen to monitor heart rhythm, and return the heart to it's normal rhythm.
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| show | Nuclear test using exercise stress testing with thallium imaging to assess changes in coronary blood flow during exercise.
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