cardiovascular
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meda120 on September 8, 2010
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 angi/o | blood or lymph vessel |
| aort/o | aorta (largest artery) |
| arteri/o | artery |
| arter/o | artery |
| ather/o | plaque, fatty substance |
| atri/o | atrium |
| ox/o | oxygen |
| pericardi/o | surrounding the heart |
| phleb/o | vein |
| sphygm/o | pulse |
| steth/o | chest |
| thromb/o | clot |
| therm/o | heat |
| brachi/o | arm |
| cardi/o | heart |
| cholesterol/o | cholesterol |
| coron/o | coronary, crown |
| cyan/o | blue |
| isch/o | to hold back |
| myx/o | mucus |
| valvul/o | valve |
| valv/o | valve |
| vas/o | vessel, vas deferens |
| vascul/o | blood vessel, little vessel |
| ven/o | vein |
| veni | vein |
| ventricul/o | ventricle of brain or heart, small chamber |
| -constriction | narrowing |
| -crit | to separate |
| -dilation | widening, stretching, expanding |
| -ectasis | stretching, dilation, enlargement |
| -emia | blood, blood condition |
| -graphy | process of producing picture or record |
| -lysis | breakdown, separation, destruction, loosening |
| -megaly | enlargement |
| -meter | measure, instrument used to measure |
| -oma | tumor, neoplasm |
| -osis | abnormal condition, disease |
| -penia | deficiency. lack, too few |
| -plasty | surgical repair |
| -poiesis | formation, to make |
| -sclerosis | abnormal hardening |
| -stenosis | abnormal narrowing |
| -otomy | cutting, surgical incision |
| hypo- | deficient, decreased |
| inter- | between, among |
| intra- | within, inside |
| peri- | surrounding, around |
| tachy- | fast, rapid |
| brady- | slow |
| tetra- | four |
| tri- | three |
| de- | down, lack of, from, not, removal |
| dys- | bad, difficult, painful |
| endo- | in, within, inside |
| hyper- | excessive, increased |
| a-, an- | no, not, without |
| -ac | pertaining to |
| -apheresis | removal |
| arteriol/o | arterioles |
| capill/o | capillaries |
| brachy | short |
| coron/o | crown, coronary |
| brady- | slow |
| tachy- | fast, rapid |
| pat/o | to be open |
| aneurysm | area of dilation or weakness (ballooning) in the wall of an artery |
| leuk/o | white |
| sider/o | iron.... sideropenia- deficiency in iron |
| thromb/o | thrombus, blood clot |
| glyc/o | sugar |
| rrgage | burst forth |
| anti- | against |
| coagulant | an agent that promotes the clotting of blood |
| end/o | within |
| stasis | stop, stand still |
| anastomosis | a surgical connection between two hollow or tubular structures |
| -lysis | to break down, destroy |
| -penia | decrease in number |
| edema | swelling from excessive accumulation of serous fluid in tissue |
| HTN | hypertension (high blood pressure) |
| CABG | open-heart surgery in which the rib cage is opened and a section of a blood vessel is grafted from the aorta to the coronary artery to bypass the blocked section of the coronary artery and improve the blood supply to the heart |
| PTCA | percutaneous transmuminal coronary angioplasty (balloon angioplasty) |
| CBC | counting the number of white and red blood cells and the number of platelets in 1 cubic millimeter of blood |
| WBC | white blood cell count |
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