Cardio Med Terms

Question 1

Circulatory System

Answer 1

Also known as the cardiovascular system

Question 2

Systole

Answer 2

The ‘working’ phase of the cardiac cycle

Question 3

Diastole

Answer 3

The ‘resting’ phase of the cardiac cycle

Question 4

Arrhythmia/Dysrhythmia

Answer 4

Abnormal heart rhythms

Question 5

Defibrillator

Answer 5

A device that shocks the heart with an electrical current

Question 6

Arteries

Answer 6

Blood vessels that carry oxygenated blood away from the heart. Is more muscular and elastic than other blood vessels.

Question 7

Capillaries

Answer 7

Blood vessels with thin walls that allow oxygen and nutrients to pass into the cells.

Question 8

Veins

Answer 8

Blood vessels that carry deoxygenated blood back to the heart. Thinner and less muscular than arteries.

Question 9

Blood

Answer 9

Called a tissue because it contains many kinds of cells/transports oxygen, carbon dioxide, nutrients, metabolic and waste products, heat, and hormones/made of plasma.

Question 10

Plasma

Answer 10

90% water, composes the blood

Question 11

Erythrocytes

Answer 11

Red Blood Cells (RBCs)

Question 12

Leukocytes

Answer 12

White Blood Cells (WBCs)

Question 13

Thrombocytes

Answer 13

AKA Platelets, important for blood clotting.

Question 14

Myocardial Infarction

Answer 14

(MI) Heart attack

Question 15

Hypertension

Answer 15

(HTN) High Blood Pressure