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| ventricle (belly or pouch) |
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| A cardiologist is a physician who specializes in the study of the ___. |
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| Formed from angi/o, an ___ is an x-ray record of a blood vessel. |
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| A vasospasm is an involuntary contraction of a blood ___. |
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| ___ is the medical specialty dealing with the study of the heart. |
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| ___, the combining form meaning clot, is the subject of thrombolysis, a term referring to the ___ ___ of a clot or clots. |
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breaking down or dissolution |
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| Someone with a congenital ventricular defect is born with an imperfection of a ___ in the heart. (The combining form of this term is ___.) That person would likely be under the care of a ____. |
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| Atherosclerosis is a condition in which hardened ___ ____ builds up inside the blood vessels. |
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| A phlebotomist is someone trained to draw blood samples from the ___. This term comes from the combining form ___ meaning ___. |
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| Veins (named from the combining form ___) return blood to the heart from all around the body. Based on the root arteri/o, ____ carry blood in the other direction (from the heart to the body or lungs). |
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| The heart is located in the chest, behind the area of the pectoral muscle. The pectoral muscles get their name from the combining from ___, which means chest. Another combining form that means chest is ___, which is the subject of the term stethoscope, an instrument used to listen to the heart or breathing within the chest. |
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| The heart has four chambers: two ventricles and two ___, which is the plural form of atrium. Atrium comes from the combining form ___, and ventricle comes from the combining form ___. |
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| The ___, from the combining form aort/o, is the large blood vessel through which blood leaves the heart for delivery to all parts of the body. The coronary arteries branch from the aorta and supply the heart's muscular tissue, or the __, with blood. The original meaning of coron/o refers to a ___. The __ arteries are so named because they seem to encircle the heart like a crown. |
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| Each beat of the heart produces a pulse. The combining form that means pulse is __. This is the key combining form in the term sphygmomanometer, an instrument that measures blood pressure (BP) based on its pressurized pulse through an artery. Arteries and __ are the two types of larger blood vessels. Along with the capillaries, they are sometimes referred to collectively as the vasculature, from the combining form __, meaning vessel. |
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| upper right or left chamber of the heart |
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| membrane lining the cavities of the heart |
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| membrane forming the outer layer of the heart |
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| partition between the right and left atria |
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| partition between the right and left ventricles |
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| protective sac enclosing the heart composed of two layers with fluid between |
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| layer closest to heart (visceral = pertaining to organ) |
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| fluid-filled cavity between the pericardial layers |
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| lower right or left chamber of the heart |
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| structures within the heart that open and close with the heartbeat to regulate the one-way flow of blood |
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| heart valve between the left ventricle and the aorta |
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| heart valve opening from the left atrium to the left ventricle |
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| heart valve between the left atrium and the left ventricle (cupis = point) |
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| pulmonary semilunar valve |
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| heart valve opening from the right ventricle to the pulmonary article (luna=moon) |
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| valve between the right atrium and the right ventricle |
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| valves located at intervals within the lining of veins, especially in the legs, which constrict with muscle action to move the blood returning to the heart |
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| vessels that carry blood from the heart to the arterioles |
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| tiny vessels that join arterioles and venules |
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