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30 Cards in this Set
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What is a hereditary,chronic hemolytic disease?
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Sickle cell anemia
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What is the term for apheresis?
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Removal
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What is lymphadenopathy?
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disease of the lymph glands
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What is disease of the lymph glands?
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lymphadenopathy
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What is rapid breathing?
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tachypnea
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What is the agent that slows the clotting process?
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anticoagulant
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What is the the surgical puncture to aspirate fluid from the the outer sac of the heart?
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pericardiocentesis
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What is formation?
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-poiesis
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What is the condition of a slow heart?
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bradycardia
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aortic stenosis
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narrowing of the aorta
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lumen
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space within a tubular part or organ
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What is the phase in the cardiac cycle in which the ventricles relax between contractions?
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diastole
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What is enlargement of the spleen?
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splenomegaly
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thrombus
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blood clot
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Congestive heart failure
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inability of the heart to pump enough blood through the body to supply the tissues and organs
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What is an embolus?
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blood clot or foreign material, air or fat that enters the blood stream and moves until it lodges
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What is any disturbance or abnormality in the hearts normal rhythmic pattern?
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dysrhythmia
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What is an angioplasty?
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surgical repair of a blood vessel
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What is a sphygmonmanometer?
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device used for measuring arterial bloos pressure
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echocardiogram
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record of the electrical activity of the heart
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hematocrit
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separated blood
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Vasodilator
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Agent or nerve that enlarges the blood vessels
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intracoronary thrombolytic therapy
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an injection of an intravenous medication to dissolve blood clots in coronary vessels
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CABG
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Coronary artery bypass graft
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CCU
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Coronary care unit
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Hgb
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Hemoglobin
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prothrombin time
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PT
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SPECT
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The abbreviation for a nuclear medicine scan that visualizes the heart from several different angles
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The procedure in which a balloon is passed through a blood vessel to the area in which the plaque is formed is called?
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Percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty
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The term that mean abnormal reduction in the number of blood cells is?
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Hematocytopenia
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