ALHS 1090 Unit 3 Exam with complete solutions

-lysis - Answer- destruction -genesis - Answer- creation -oma - Answer- tumor -rrhage - Answer- bursting forth coronary artery disease (CAD) - Answer- narrowing of the lumen, or inner open space of a vessel, of heart arteries due to arteriosclerosis and atherosclerosis ven/o - Answer- vein hem/o - Answer- blood vascul/o - Answer- blood vessel atri/o - Answer- atria MR - Answer- mitral regurgitation INR - Answer- international normalized ratio (test or procedure) MVP - Answer- mitral valve prolapse cor pulmonale - Answer- condition of right ventricular enlargement or dilation from increased right ventricular pressure; also called pulmonary heart disease or right sided heart failure embolus - Answer- undissolved matter floating in blood or lymph fluid that may cause an occlusion and infarction arteriosclerosis - Answer- hardening of the arteries ischemia - Answer- temporary reduction in blood supply to a localized area of tissue -coronary - Answer- joining the aorta and coronary arteries -malacia - Answer- softening -clasia - Answer- to break; surgical fracture -stenosis - Answer- narrowing, stricture Thromboangitis Obliterans (Buerger's) - Answer- type of vascular disease associated with tobacco use, marked by inflammation and clot formation within small vessels of the hands and feet, which may lead to gangrene and surgical amputation; sometimes called Buergers disease atrial fibrillation - Answer- common irregular heart rhythm marked by uncontrolled atrial quivering and a rapid ventricular response CABG (Coronary Artery Bypass Graft) - Answer- angiorrhaphy - suture or suturing electrocardiogram - Answer- record of the electrical activity of the heart thrombolysis - Answer- destruction of a blood clot angiography - Answer- test to examine heart vessels ASHD - Answer- arteriosclerotic heart disease stoma/o - Answer- mouth or mouthlike opening pleur/o - Answer- pleura (membrane surrounding lungs and adjacent to chest wall) rhin/o - Answer- nose chondro/o - Answer- cartilage -pnea - Answer- breathing dys- - Answer- difficult, painful, bad hyper - Answer- increased volume of air -tachy - Answer- abnormally rapid breathing eupnea - Answer- normal breathing pleurodesis - Answer- two membranes covering the lungs to adhere to one another T&A - Answer- tonsillectomy and adenoidectomy spirometry - Answer- a measurement of breathing (or lung volumes) pulmonary function tests - Answer- patients lung capacity stat - Answer- immediately aerophagia - Answer- the excessive swallowing of air while eating or drinking, and is a common cause of gas in the stomach emphysema - Answer- disorder marked by abnormal increase in the size of air spaces distal to the terminal bronchiole and destruction of alveolar walls, resulting in loss of normal elasticity and progressive dyspnea empyema - Answer- collection of infected fluid Histoplasmosis - Answer- fungus found in oil contaminated with bird droppings conio/o - Answer- dust nasal polyps - Answer- rounded tissue growths on the nasal or sinal mucosa (abnormal growth) interpleural fluid - Answer- several mL of fluid between the two pleurae pulmonary angiography - Answer- a test to see how blood flows (circulates) through the lung. epiglottic edema - Answer- block a patients airway transthoracic - Answer- drain tube through chest cavity lobectomy - Answer- surgical removal of a portion of the lung URI - Answer- related to coryza tracheostomy - Answer- artificial opening made in the trachea through which a tracheostomy tube is inserted laparosplenectomy - Answer- incision of the abdomen VS - Answer- measurement of patient pulse pseudomembranous enterocolitis - Answer- inflammatory condition of both small and large bowels that results in severe watery diarrhea; also commonly called C. diff. colitis pharyngotone - Answer- instrument for cutting pharynx PO - Answer- by mouth enter/o - Answer- small intestine UGI - Answer- upper GI x-ray H.pylori test - Answer- detects the cause of gastric ulcers fecal occult blood test (FOBT) - Answer- test to detect occult blood in feces (lower endoscopy) hepatosplenomegaly - Answer- enlargement of the liver and spleen hernia - Answer- protrusion of a structure through the tissue that normally contains it gingiv/o/stomat/itis - Answer- gum-mouth-inflammation sialodenitis - Answer- inflammation of the salivary glands glossolabial - Answer- pertaining to the tongue and lips Achalasia - Answer- dilation and expansion of the lower esophagus, due to pressure from food accumulation