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chapter 7 vocabulary
word | meening |
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myocardial | heart muscle |
myocardial infarction | heart attack |
occusion | a blockage in a canal,vessel or passage of the body |
capillary | the smallest blood vessels |
arterioles | the smallest of the arteries |
atria | the lower chamber of the heart |
diuretic | agent used to reduce the blood volume |
triglyceride | fatty substance in the body |
lipiod | fatty substance in the body |
antiarrhythmic | drugs used to correct an abnormal heart rhythm |
homeostasis | equilibrum of the internal environment of the body |
ischemia | temporary deficency of blood supply to any body part |
vasodilation | an increase in the diameter of a blood vessel |
phlebectomy | the surgical removel of a vein or part of a vein |
fibrillation | severe cardiac arrhythmic in which contractions are to rapid for effective blood circulation |
cardioversion | restoring hearts normal rhythm by applying a controlled electric shock to the exterior of the chest |
murmur | soft blowing, fluttering sound in heart |
tachycardia | rapid heart rate |
myocarditis | inflammation of the heart muscle |
pericarditis | inflammation of the pericardium |