Heart

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  1. 3. A state in which the heart is larger than normal due to heredity, long-term heavy exercise or diseases and disorders such as obesity, high blood pressure and coronary artery disease.
  2. 5. the speed of the heartbeat measured by the number of contractions of the heart per minute.
  3. 7. severe failure of the heart to function properly, especially as a cause of death.
  4. 8. muscular chamber that pumps blood out of the heart and into the circulatory system
  5. 10. the pulsation of the heart.
  6. 12. Same as high blood pressure.
  7. 13. an apparatus used to control heart fibrillation by application of an electric current to the chest wall or heart.
  8. 16. any of the muscular-walled tubes forming part of the circulation system by which blood (mainly that which has been oxygenated) is conveyed from the heart to all parts of the body.
  9. 17. receives blood from the right atrium and pumped it into the lungs where it is loaded with oxygen
  10. 19. an artificial device for stimulating the heart muscle and regulating its contractions.
  11. 22. a rhythmical throbbing of the arteries as blood is propelled through them, typically as felt in the wrists or neck.
  12. 24. inflammation of the endocardium.
  13. 25. marked by regular contraction and dilatation.
  14. 26. any of the tubes forming part of the blood circulation system of the body, carrying in most cases oxygen-depleted blood toward the heart.
  15. 27. each of the two upper cavities of the heart from which blood is passed to the ventricles.
  16. 28. Pertaining to the heart.
  17. 30. The removal or destruction of tissue.
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  1. 1. a weakness of the heart that leads to a buildup of fluid in the lungs and surrounding body stuff tissues.
  2. 2. an instrument for recording heart muscle activity, such as an electrocardiograph.
  3. 4. the main artery of the body, supplying oxygenated blood to the circulatory system.
  4. 6. An opening, covered by membrane flaps, between two chambers of the heart or between a chamber of the heart and a blood vessel.
  5. 9. a disease that affects the arteries leading to and within the brain.
  6. 10. a muscular organ located in the midline of the thoracic cavity
  7. 11. the thin, smooth membrane which lines the inside of the chambers of the heart and forms the surface of the valves.
  8. 14. a doctor who specializes in the study or treatment of heart diseases and heart abnormalities.
  9. 15. The abnormal backward flowing of blood through a valve of the heart.
  10. 18. Pumps oxygen rich blood to the rest of the body.
  11. 20. A sac-like protrusion from a blood vessel or the heart, resulting from a weakening of the vessel wall or heart muscle.
  12. 21. a serous membrane that forms the innermost layer of the pericardium and the outer surface of the heart.
  13. 23. One of the muscular walls dividing the two chambers on the left side of the heart from the two chambers on the right.
  14. 29. fluid that transports oxygen and nutrients to the cells and carries away carbon dioxide and other waste products.