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- 4. LESS cholesterol; the fast moving car that moves cholesterol along in your
- 5. can techniques of molecular biology be used to analyze DNA for the presence of the familial hypercholesterolemia mutation?
- 9. of a tiny balloon at the tip of a catheter that makes a large opening in the artery to improve blood flow
- 11. lipid that forms an essential component of animal cell membranes and acts as a precursor molecule for the synthesis of other biologically important steroids?
- 14. Inherited and passed on through families (defect on chromosome 19)
- 15. phase
- 17. in the walls of large arteries consisting of lipid deposits on the artery walls
- 18. to create tiny channels in the heart muscle to allow oxygen-rich blood to infiltrate the muscle
- 19. device that raises, transfers, delivers, or compresses fluids or gases by suction or pressure
- 20. term used to refer to the range of diseases that can affect the heart
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- 1. blood around the body
- 2. is the usual blood pressure for adults?
- 3. phase
- 6. study of tissues
- 7. a heart machine to do the work of the heart while procedure occurs; requires an incision in either the leg for the vein or the chest for the artery
- 8. Arterial Pressure used to measure adequacy of blood getting to vital tissues and organs
- 10. syndrome-Group of factors that all go against you (3 or more factors)
- 12. it's too weighted down to move fast, so it gets stuck
- 13. valves from human donors or are artificial (made of metal)
- 16. measurement of heart electrical activity