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- 4. Small branches of arteries.
- 5. Abnormalities present at birth are considered congenital.
- 8. there is an upper, low-pressure chamber that collects blood from the veins
- 11. When a valve leaks it is said to be regurgitant.
- 12. A medical term for high blood pressure. Incentive Spirometer A device to measure your progress in taking deep breaths.
- 13. physicians who specialize in diseases of the heart.
- 14. A surgical connection, often between two blood vessels.
- 15. A catheter is a narrow tube that is passed inside blood vessels to the heart for diagnostic and treatment purposes.
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- 1. There are four valves in the heart, two on the left side and two on the right side. On each side there is an inflow valve to the ventricle - the main pumping chamber - and an outflow valve.
- 2. The mitral valve is the inflow valve for the left ventricle. It closes when the ventricle squeezes blood out to the body and then opens to let more blood into the ventricle.
- 3. A small, thin tube; may refer to a tube used during a cardiac catheterization procedure to inject dye, obtain blood samples, and measure pressures inside the heart; may also refer to a small tube used to help drain the bladder during and after a surgical procedure.
- 5. The arteries on the surface of the heart that provide blood flow to the heart muscle itself.
- 6. This term refers to the state of not having enough oxygen-rich blood flow delivered to the heart muscle.
- 7. The aorta is the main blood vessel leading from the heart to the rest of the body.
- 9. The main pumping chamber of the heart is the ventricle. The heart has a right ventricle that pumps blood to the lungs, and a left ventricle that pumps blood to the body
- 10. The narrowing of a valve or an artery. A stenotic valve does not open completely and therefore it obstructs or blocks blood from moving through it normally. A stenotic artery results in an obstruction of blood flow through it to the organs of the body.