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30 Cards in this Set
- Front
- Back
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Coronary arteries
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Arteries coming down over top of heart like a crown.
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Endocardium
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Inner lining of the heart.
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Murmur
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An extra heart sound heard between normal beats.
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Myocardium
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Heart muscle, muscular layer of the heart
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Pericardium
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Membrane sac surrounding the heart.
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Pulse
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Beat of the heart felt through walls of arteries.
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Septum
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Partition in cardiovascular system between right and left sides of heart.
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Sphygmanometer
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A manometer measuring pressure.
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Asystole
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Abscence of heartbeat.
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Systole
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Contractive phase of heart
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Diastole
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Relaxation phase of heart pumpping cycle.
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Atrium
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Upper chamber of heart
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Ventricle
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Lover chamber of heart
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Pericarditis
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Inflammation of the sac around the heart.
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Myocardial infarction
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Heart attack (dead tissue of the heart muscle)
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aneurysom/o
combining form |
Widening blood vessel
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angi/o
combining form |
vessel
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aort/o - combining form
arter/o, arteri/o - comb. form |
Aorta
Artery |
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ather/o - combining form.
atri/o - atrium |
Yellowish plaque
atrium |
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axill/o combining form
brachi/o combining form |
armpit
arm |
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cardi/o
cholesterol/o combining forms |
heart
lipid substance |
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coron/o
cyan/o isch/o my/o all combining forms |
heart
blue to hold back muscle |
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myx/o
ox/o pericardi/o phleb/o pulmon/o all combining forms |
mucus
oxygen pericardium vein lung |
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sphygm/o
steth/o thromb/o valv/o valvul/o all comb. forms |
pulse
chest clot valve valve |
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vas/o
vascul/o ven/o, ven/i ventricul/o all comb. forms |
vessel
vessel vein ventricle/lower heart chamber |
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-constriction
-dilation -emia -graphy -lysis -megaly -meter |
narrowing
widening-stretching blood condition process of recording breakdown-separation enlargement measuring |
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de-
dys- endo- hypo- hyper- inter- |
lack of, down
bad, difficult, painful within defficient, low excessive between |
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peri-
tachy- tetra- tri- |
around
fast four three |
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-osis -plasty -sclerosis -stenosis -tomy |
tumor, mass, fluid collection
condition, usually abnormal surgical repair hardening tighting stricture process of cutting |
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Angioplasty
Cardiac catheterization |
surgical repair of vessel
Thin flexible tube guided into the heart via vein or artery |
