Atria - Answers The upper chambers of the heart are called the:
Ventricles - Answers The lower chambers of the heart are called the:
Mitral - Answers The valve located between the left atrium and ventricle is the:
Endocarditis - Answers _____ is an inflammation of the serous membrane lining inside the
myocardium of the heart:
Vessel - Answers The combining forms angi/o- and vaso- all mean:
ven/o- and phleb/o- - Answers The combining forms that mean "vein" are:
Monocytosis - Answers _____ is the presence of an elevated number of mononuclear leukocytes
in the blood:
Rumble - Answers What abnormal heart sound is described as a low-pitched murmur?
instrument used to record - Answers The suffix -graph in the term cardio/graph means:
vessel : in chest - Answers Angina Pectoris literally means:
age - Answers A non-controllable risk factor for heart attack is:
narrowing of the aorta - Answers The diagnostic term Aortic Stenosis means:
deficient supply of blood to the crowning blood vessels of the heart - Answers The diagnostic
term Coronary Isch/emia actually means:
arterio/sclera/o/sis - Answers The diagnostic term that means hardening of the arteries is:
heart/muscle/disease/condition - Answers The literal meaning of the diagnostic term
Cardio/myo/path/y is:
congestive heart failure - Answers The inability of the heart to pump enough blood through the
body to supply the tissues and organs is called:
variation in normal heart rhythm or contraction - Answers The diagnostic term Ar/rhythmia
means:
blood bursting forth - Answers Hemorrhage means:
aneurysm - Answers The diagnostic term for the ballooning of a weakened portion of an arterial
wall is:
Thrill - Answers What abnormal heart sound can be felt as a vibration?
, inadequate exercise - Answers A controllable risk factor for heart attack is:
muscle response - Answers Which of the following isn't a vital sign?
decrease in normal RBC numbers, iron, or hemoglobin levels - Answers The diagnostic term
An/emia means:
lymph - Answers _____ collected throughout the body drain(s) into the blood through two ducts
in the neck:
embolism - Answers What is obstruction of blood vessels by a clot or any foreign substance
called?
surgical repair of a blood vessel - Answers The surgical term Angioplasty means:
penicillin - Answers Which of the following isn't an antihypertensive drug?
coronary artery bypass - Answers The surgical technique that brings a new blood supply to heart
muscles by detouring around blocked atherosclerotic coronary arteries is called a(n):
edema - Answers _____ is local or generalized swelling caused by excessive tissue fluids:
angiograph/y - Answers The procedural term for X-ray of the blood vessels after an injection of
contrast medium dye is:
porridge - Answers THER- means _____, and refers to yellow fat:
apoplexy - Answers A stroke is also known as:
Large/eater - Answers Macro/phage literally means:
Sphygmomanometer - Answers The device or instrument that is used to measure arterial blood
pressure by hand is a:
Doppler Flow Studies - Answers The study that uses ultrasound to determine the velocity of the
flow of blood within a vessel is:
the science and study of the heart - Answers The medical term Cardiology means:
pulmonic regurgitation - Answers With _____, blood flows backward through an incomplete
pulmonic valve from the pulmonary artery to the right ventricle:
cerebral vascular accident - Answers Which of the following is not a congenital heart defect?
Ecchymosis - Answers Irregular and large hemorrhages under the skin is called:
Thrombus - Answers What is coagulated or clotted material that develops inside the vascular
system?