Medical Terminology Word Scramble
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| Question | Answer |
| 1. angi/o | vessel |
| 2. aort/o | aorta |
| 3. arteri/o | artery |
| 4. ather/o | fatty (lipid) paste |
| 5. atri/o | atrium |
| 6cardi/o | heart |
| 7. coron/o | circle or crown |
| 8. phleb/o | vein |
| 9. thromb/o | clot |
| 10. varic/o | swollen, twisted vein |
| 11. endocardium | membrane lining the cavities of the heart |
| 12. epicardium | membrane forming the outer layer of the heart |
| 13. interatrial septum | partition between the right and left ventricles |
| 14. mitral valve | heart valve between the keft atrium and the left ventricccle |
| 15. tricuspid valve | valve between the right atrium and the right ventricle |
| 16. capillaries | tiny vessels that join arterioles |
| 17. venules | small vessels that gather blood from the capillaries into the veins |
| 18. distole | to expand; period during the heart cardiac cyce when blood enters the relaxed ventricals from the atria |
| 19. systole | to contract; period during the cardiac cycle when the heart is in contraction and blood is ejected through the aorta and the pulmonary artery |
| 20. hypotension | low blood pressure |
| 21. hypertension | high blood pressure |
| 22. ischemia | decreased blood flow to tissue caused by obstruction or contraction of a blood vessel |
| 23. occlusion | plugging; an obstruction or a closing off |
| 24. vegetation | an abnormal growth of tissue around a valve, generally resulting from infection; to grow |
| 25. anastomosis | joining of two blood vessels to allow flow from one to the other |
| 26. valvuloplasty | surgical repair of a heart valve |
| 28. antianginal | drug that dilates coronary arteries, restoring oxygen to the tissue to relieve the pain of angina pectoris |
| 29, antiarrhythmic | drug that counteracts cardiac arrhythmia |
| 30. antihypertensive | drug that lowers blood pressure |
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