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| the large artery emerging from the left ventricle |
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| transitional artery to capillary vessel |
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| carry blood away from the heart |
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| the two superior heart chambers that receive blood |
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| slow the impulse from the SA node to the ventricles |
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| thin layer of connective tissue - lines the heart chambers |
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| forms the outer heart wall layer |
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| the bulk of the heart wall - muscle tissue |
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| outer membrane surrounding the heart |
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| left atrioventricular valve |
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| right atrioventricular valve |
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| heart relaxes and fills with blood |
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| heart contracts and expels blood |
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| carries blood toward the heart |
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| transitional capillary to vein vessel |
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| general term - "chamber" - pushes blood |
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| conducting pathways for heart impulses |
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| microscopic blood vessels (1 cell thick) between arteries and veins that allow oxygen transfer to and from blood cells |
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| chest pain caused by an insufficient heart blood supply |
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| any loss of rhythm in the heartbeat |
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| abnormally slow heartbeat |
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| abnormal heart enlargement |
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| disturbance/abnormality of the heart's normal cycle |
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| pounding/racing/skipping heartbeat |
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| abnormally fast heartrate |
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| hardening of the arteries |
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| opening in the septum between the left and right atriums |
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| general term for disease of heart muscle |
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| pain in a limb caused by poor circulation |
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| narrowed aorta (congenital disease) |
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| inability of left ventricle to pump enough blood |
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| blue tinge in skin and mucus membranes caused by oxygen deficiency |
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| blood clots within deep leg veins |
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| clot/particle floating through circulation |
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| rapid, uncoordinated ventricle contractions |
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| extremely rapid, but regular, contractions |
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| abnormal soft blowing or rasping sound |
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| persistently high blood pressure |
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| chronic low blood pressure |
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| abnormally low blood flow to tissues |
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| death of a part of the myocardium |
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| opening between pulmonary artery and aorta |
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| 4 defects resulting in bypass of the pulmonary circuit |
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| ventricular septal defect |
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| septum opening between ventricles, allowing blood flow between them |
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| x-ray of a blood vessel after contrast media is injected |
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| surgical blood vessel repair |
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| physical examination using a stethoscope |
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| insertion of a tube into a coronary blood vessel |
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| x-ray recording of heart's circulation |
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| coronary artery bypass graft |
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| a blood vessel is removed from a different part of the body and used to bypass a blocked artery in the heart |
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| electrical charge to stop fibrillation |
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| recording of electrical heartbeat-associated events |
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| measures arterial blood pressure |
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| treatments to dissolve clots |
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| surgical heart valve repair |
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| turbulent blood flow (sound associated) |
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| abnormal blood vessel narrowing |
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| tightening, prevents proper blood flow |
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| clot-type masses on the heart valves |
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| leaflet of mitral valve facing the wrong way |
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| vein inflammation caused by a clot |
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| percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty |
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| balloon treatment to open up a closed coronary artery |
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