Circulatory Terms
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| myocardial infarction | heart attack
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| atherosclerosis | hardening of the arteries due to plaque build-up
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| ischemia | lack of blood supply
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| hypoxia | shortage of oxygen
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| angina pectoris | chest pain due to oxygen shortage in the heart
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| embolism | when an object migrates from one part of the body to another and causes blockage in a blood vessel
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| occlusion | blockage
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| thromboembolism | general term describing both thrombosis and its main complication embolisation
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| coagulation | clotting of blood
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| hemostasis | cessation of blood loss from a damaged vessel
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| lumen | interior of a blood vessel; inner membrane space of a chloroplast, golgi apparatus, or mitochondrion
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| arteries | bring oxygenated blood to tissues
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| capillaries | connect arterioles and venules; blood vessels that most closely interact with tissues
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| veins | bring deoxygenated blood back to the heart
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| arterioles | extends and branches out from an artery and leads to capillaries
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| venules | allows deoxygenated blood to return from the capillary beds to veins
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| endothelium | layer of thin specialized epithelium, comprised of a simple squamous layer of cells that line the interior surface of blood vessels
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