Name: Score:
20 Multiple choice questions
, Term 1 of 20
The abnormality that refers to the intermittent ischemic attacks that affect arterioles of the skin is:
a) Angina pectoris
b) Arteriosclerosis
c) Peripheral vascular disease
d) Raynaud disease
b) Patent ductus arteriosus
The best way to remember what patent ductus arteriosus means is to know that patent
means open. Coarctation means narrowing; coarctation of the aorta is a congenital defect.
Septal defects are small holes in the septa between the atria or the ventricles. Tetralogy of
Fallot is a congenital malformation of the heart involving four (tetra-) different defects.
a) Myocardial infarction
An infarction is an area of dead tissue. Myocardial infarction is a heart attack. When blood
flow to the myocardium (myocardi/o) is cut off, tissue death occurs.
d) vegetations, emboli
An embolus (pl., emboli) is a foreign object like a bit of tissue or tumor, or a piece of a
thrombus that circulates in the bloodstream until it becomes lodged in a vessel. In the case
of bacterial endocarditis, damage to the heart valves produces lesions called vegetations
that break off into the bloodstream as emboli.
d) Raynaud disease
Raynaud disease is a condition characterized by intermittent attacks of ischemia that cause
constriction and vasospasm in the arterioles in the skin. Symptoms include episodes of
alternating pallor (paleness) and cyanosis-bluish discoloration of the skin-and numbness.
Angina pectoris is chest pain. Arteriosclerosis refers to hardening (scler/o) of the arteries
(arteri/o). Peripheral vascular disease means blocked blood vessels outside (peripheral to)
the heart.
20 Multiple choice questions
, Term 1 of 20
The abnormality that refers to the intermittent ischemic attacks that affect arterioles of the skin is:
a) Angina pectoris
b) Arteriosclerosis
c) Peripheral vascular disease
d) Raynaud disease
b) Patent ductus arteriosus
The best way to remember what patent ductus arteriosus means is to know that patent
means open. Coarctation means narrowing; coarctation of the aorta is a congenital defect.
Septal defects are small holes in the septa between the atria or the ventricles. Tetralogy of
Fallot is a congenital malformation of the heart involving four (tetra-) different defects.
a) Myocardial infarction
An infarction is an area of dead tissue. Myocardial infarction is a heart attack. When blood
flow to the myocardium (myocardi/o) is cut off, tissue death occurs.
d) vegetations, emboli
An embolus (pl., emboli) is a foreign object like a bit of tissue or tumor, or a piece of a
thrombus that circulates in the bloodstream until it becomes lodged in a vessel. In the case
of bacterial endocarditis, damage to the heart valves produces lesions called vegetations
that break off into the bloodstream as emboli.
d) Raynaud disease
Raynaud disease is a condition characterized by intermittent attacks of ischemia that cause
constriction and vasospasm in the arterioles in the skin. Symptoms include episodes of
alternating pallor (paleness) and cyanosis-bluish discoloration of the skin-and numbness.
Angina pectoris is chest pain. Arteriosclerosis refers to hardening (scler/o) of the arteries
(arteri/o). Peripheral vascular disease means blocked blood vessels outside (peripheral to)
the heart.
