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)