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MT 124-3 Heart
Heart Circulatory System
Question | Answer |
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Hematology | the branch of science concerned with the study of blood |
Hemophilla | refers to several different heriditary defiecences of coagulation in which bledding may occur spontaneously |
Hemorrhage | bleeding internally or externally |
Cardiology | study of the normal heart and diseases associated with it |
Agina pectoris | mean chest pain.. results from ischemia of the myocardium |
ateriosclerosis | a process in which fatty substances are deposited in the walls of arteries blocking the vessel and increasing blood pressure |
Congestive heart failure | a chronic or acute state when heart is not capable of supplying oxygen demands of the body |
Varicose veins | a condition of having weak venous valves that leadto the walls of the veins losing their elasticity becoming stretched and flabby |
Shock | failure of the cardiovascular system to deliver adequate amounts of oxygen and nutirnets to meet the bodys need leading to abnormal celluar metabolism and even death |
Occlusion | the closure or obstruction of the opening of a blood vessel |
phlebitis | inflamation of a vein |
thrombophlebitis | inflamation of a vein with clot formation |
leukemia | a form of cancer in which white blood cells multiply widly in the bone marrow.. normal cause of death is internal hemorraging |
pericarditis | inflamation of the covering around the heart |
arrhythmia | any variation from the normal rhythm of the heart |
cardiac arrest | stopping the heart |