Ch 11

Question 1

Veins

Answer 1

Thinner walls than arteries and move deoxygenated blood toward the heart from the tissues.

Question 2

Capillaries

Answer 2

Are the smallest vessels. They form the point of exchange for oxygen and nutrients into body cells and waste products coming from body cells.
*patent term means “open”

Question 3

Two phases of the heart beat

Answer 3

Diastole & systole.

Question 4

Diastole

Answer 4

Relaxation.

Question 5

Systole

Answer 5

Contraction.

Question 6

ECG or EKG

Answer 6

(Electrocardiogram) the record used to detect electrical changes in the heart muscle as the heart beats.

Question 7

Blood pressure

Answer 7

The force that blood exerts on arterial walls. To measure blood pressure you use a sphygmomanometer.

Question 8

Aorta

Answer 8

Largest artery in the body.

Question 9

Arteriole

Answer 9

Small artery.

Question 10

Co2

Answer 10

Waste gas released by body cells transported via veins to the heart and then lungs to exhalation.

Question 11

Endocardium

Answer 11

Inner lining of the heart.

Question 12

Pacemaker

Answer 12

Specialized nervous tissue in the right artrium that begins the heartbeat.

Question 13

Pericardium

Answer 13

Double layered membrane surrounding the heart.

Question 14

Pulmonary artery

Answer 14

Artery carting oxygen poor blood from the heart to the lungs.

Question 15

Pulmonary circulation

Answer 15

Flow of blood from the heart to the lungs back to the heart.

Question 16

Thrombus

Answer 16

Blood clot.

Question 17

Venule

Answer 17

Small vein.

Question 18

ANGI/o

Answer 18

Vessel.

Question 19

Brachi/o

Answer 19

Arm.

Question 20

Coron/o

Answer 20

Heart.

Question 21

Cyan/o

Answer 21

Blue.

Question 22

Myx/o

Answer 22

Mucus.

Question 23

Phleb/o

Answer 23

Vein.

Question 24

Sphygm/o

Answer 24

Pulse.

Question 25

Steth/o

Answer 25

Chest.

Question 26

Arrhythmia

Answer 26

Heart block.

Question 27

CHF Congestive heart disease

Answer 27

The heart is unable to pump the required amount of blood.

Question 28

CAD coronary artery disease

Answer 28

Atherosclerosis think fatty plaque thrombotic occlusion( non moving clot). Drug therapies for CAD nitrates, vasodilators, lowers BP.

Question 29

ACS Acute coronary syndromes

Answer 29

Unable angina | Myocardial infarction.

Question 30

Aneurysm

Answer 30

Ballooning of a blood vessel.

Question 31

DVT

Answer 31

deep vein thrombosis.

Question 32

HTN

Answer 32

Hypertension.

Question 33

PVD

Answer 33

Peripheral vascular disease.

Question 34

Diagnostic procedures | Holter monitoring

Answer 34

24-month long assessment

Question 35

Treatment procedures | Cardio version

Answer 35

Defibrillation.

Question 36

Treatment procedures | Extracorporeal circulation

Answer 36

Dialysis, relieves heart work load.

Question 37

Treatment procedures

Answer 37

Cardioversion, endarterectomy, extracorporeal circulation, heart transplant, thrombolytic therapy, transcatheter aortic valve replacement.

Question 38

TAVR

Answer 38

Transcatheter aortic valve replacement.

Question 39

CABG

Answer 39

Coronary artery bypass graft surgery.

Question 40

-dilation

Answer 40

Widening, stretching, expanding.

Question 41

-Emia

Answer 41

Blood condition.

Question 42

-lysis

Answer 42

Breakdown, separation.

Question 43

-megaly

Answer 43

Enlargement.

Question 44

-Oma

Answer 44

Tumor.

Question 45

-osis

Answer 45

Condition.

Question 46

-plasty

Answer 46

Surgical repair.

Question 47

-tomy

Answer 47

Process of cutting.

Question 48

Brady-

Answer 48

Slow.

Question 49

Dys

Answer 49

Painful.

Question 50

Hyper

Answer 50

above, excessive.

Question 51

Tachy-

Answer 51

Fast.

Question 52

Tetra-

Answer 52

Four

Question 53

AF

Answer 53

Alpha fetoprotein.

Question 54

LP

Answer 54

Lumbar puncture.

Question 55

PCA

Answer 55

Patient controlled.

Question 56

How does the blood get back to the heart?

Answer 56

Veins. Through the superior vena cava.

Question 57

Digoxin

Answer 57

Drugs

Question 58

Dilated swollen veins in the testes

Answer 58

Varicose.

Question 59

Gravita

Answer 59

Abortion/live births.

Question 60

Syncope

Answer 60

Fainting.

Question 61

Embolus

Answer 61

Blood clot.

Question 62

Parturition

Answer 62

Act of giving birth.

Question 63

CHD coronary heart disease

Answer 63

Pain in the heart.

Question 64

Ora

Answer 64

Feeling that perceives.

Question 65

Cerebellum

Answer 65

muscle coordination.

Question 66

Shuffling gate

Answer 66

How a person walks.

Question 67

Paricardium

Answer 67

Membrane enclosing the heart consisting of fibrous later and inner double layer of serious membrane.

Question 68

Vulva

Answer 68

Female External genitals.

Question 69

Dyst

Answer 69

Difficult labor.

Question 70

Aphasia

Answer 70

Inability to speak.

Question 71

Dysphagia

Answer 71

Difficulty to swallow.

Question 72

Adnexa uteri

Answer 72

Structures mostly closely related structurally and functionally to the uterus.

Question 73

Placentral abruption

Answer 73

Premature placenta.

Question 74

Episotomy

Answer 74

Incision of child birth.

Question 75

Arteries

Answer 75

Are the vessels that lead away from the heart.