Medical Terminology Chapter 5- Circulation and Heart Structures & Blood Flow Through the Heart
septum
a wall or partition dividing a body space or cavity
arterioscelerosis
abnormal hardening of arteries
aortopathy
any disease of the aorta
hemat/o hem/o
blood
tricuspid valve
blood flows from the right atrium through this to the right ventricle three leaflets (cusps)
superior vena cava
conveys blood from the upper portion of the body
inferior vena cava
conveys bloods from the lower portion of the body
right atrium
deoxygenated blood enters here via the vena cavae
hemangiectasis
dilation or expansion of a blood vessel
arteriopathy
disease of an artery
interventricular septum
divided left ventricle form right ventricle
aorta
largest blood vessel in the body starts and arches out of the left ventricle
mitral valve
located between the left atrium and left ventricle bicuspid
phlebostenosis
narrowing or stricture of a vein
pulmonary trunk
only artery that carries deoxygenated blood each branch conveys deoxygenated blood to the lungs
left atrium
oxygenated blood returns to the heart through here, via four pulmonary veins
pulmonary
pertaining to the lungs
tachy-
rapid
tachypnea
rapid breathing
tachyphagia
rapid swallowing or eating
phleborrhexis
rupture of a vein
arteriorrhexis
rupture of an artery
brady-
slow
bradycardia
slow heart
aterioles
small vessels formed from arteries carry blood to capillaries
arteriolith
stone or calculus in the artery
SVC IVC
superior vena cava inferior vena cava
phleborrhaphy
suture of a vein
arteriorrhaphy
suture of an artery
angioma
tumor consisting primarily or blood or lymph vessels
hemangioma
tumor of blood vessels
four chambers of the heart
upper: right atrium, left atrium lower: right ventricle, left ventricle
arrhythmia
without rhythm flutter that progresses to fibrillation (arrhythmia in which there is a rapid uncoordinated quivering of the myocardium)