Blood & Cardiovascular Assignment Part 1

1. suffix meaning "that which produces"
5. combining form meaning "granules"
6. blood pressure
7. suffix meaning "to reduce, destroy, separate, break down"
9. suffix meaning "carrying, transmission"
12. Widening of the arterial wall
16. suffix meaning "to stop, control,place"
18. combining form meaning "base, opposite of acid"
19. normal sinus rhythm
21. suffix meaning "development, formation"
23. combining form meaning "varied, irregular"
24. combining form meaning "same, equal"
26. suffix meaning "blood condition"
27. are large elastic vessels which lead directly from the heart carrying blood rich in oxygen
28. Regular rate and rhythm of heart
29. contractions of the heart up to 300 beats per minute. These are regular but exremely fast contractions.
30. suffix meaning "attraction for"
31. abnormal heart rhythms
33. suffix meaning "condition of cells, slight increase n numbers"
34. combining form meaning "blood"
35. combining form meaning "neither; neutral; neutrophil"
36. combining form meaning "color"

2. combining form meaning "red"
3. Lack of mature erythrocytes caused by the inability to absorb vitamin B12 into blood.
4. suffix meaning "protein"
8. suffix meaning "embryonic; immature cell"
10. combining form meaning "nucleus"
11. the type that transports blood to the lungs and back to the heart.
13. the type that transports blood throughout the body except for the lungs
14. where there is a problem with the right or left ventricle of the heart
15. this is a reduction in the plasma clotting factor (factor VIII). The result is that the patient bleeds for a longer period of time.
16. combining form meaning "iron"
17. combining form meaning "shape, form"
20. this is a reduction in erythrocytes or hemoglobin in the blood
22. combining form meaning "coagulation (clotting)
25. suffix meaning "removal"
30. suffix meaning "eat, swallow"
32. suffix meaning "formation"