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- 3. prevent the backward flow of blood
- 5. Vascular Accident- a loss of blood flow to part of the brain, which damages brain tissue.
- 9. an apparatus used to control heart fibrillation by application of an electric current to the chest wall or heart.
- 10. Cava- A large vein that carries blood to the heart from other areas of the body.
- 11. the number of times the heart beats within a certain time period, usually a minute.
- 12. stethoscope is a medical instrument for listening to the action of someone's heart or breathing, typically having a small disk-shaped resonator that is placed against the chest, and two tubes connected to earpieces.
- 13. any of the fine branching blood vessels that form a network between the arterioles and venules.
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- 1. a partition separating two chambers, such as that between the nostrils or the chambers of the heart.
- 2. Resuscitation- An emergency procedure used to restart a person's heartbeat and breathing after one or both have stopped
- 4. A blood vessel that carries blood to the heart from tissues and organs in the body.
- 6. each of the two upper cavities of the heart from which blood is passed to the ventricles.
- 7. the main artery of the body, supplying oxygenated blood to the circulatory system
- 8. 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.