Medical Terminology Simplified

(Grace) #1
5–38 The CF arteri/orefers to an artery. Arteri/al bleeding is bleeding from an
____________________.

5–39 Arteri/al circulation is movement of blood through the
____________________.

5–40 An arteri/al spasm is a spasm of an ____________________.

5–41 Develop medical words that mean
rupture of an artery:____________________ / _____ / ____________________
suture of an artery:____________________ / _____ / ____________________
disease of an artery:____________________ / _____ / ____________________
involuntary contraction or twitching of an artery:
____________________ / _____ / ____________________

5–42 The suffix -lithrefers to a stone, orcalculus.An arteri/o/lith, also called an
arteri/al calculus, is a calculus, or ____________________, in an
____________________.

5–43 The right and left pulmonary arteries leading to the lungs branch and subdi-
vide until they ultimately form capillaries around the alveoli. Carbon dioxide is
passed from the blood into the alveoli and expelled out of the lungs. Oxygen inhaled
by the lungs is passed from the alveoli into the blood.
The left pulmonary artery is identified in Figure 5–3 as number __________.
The right pulmonary artery is identified in Figure 5–3 as number __________.

5–44 Oxygenated blood leaves the lungs and returns to the heart via the
(12) right pulmonary veinsand (13) left pulmonary veins.The four pulmonary
veins empty into the LA. The LA contracts to force blood through the (14) mitral
valveinto the LV. Label the structures in Figure 5–3.

5–45 The mitral valve, located between the LA and LV, is a bi/cuspid, or
bi/leaflet, valve, which means that the number of leaflets or flaps that the mitral
valve has is __________.

Frame 5–30to Frame 5–45

Cardiovascular System • CHAPTER 5 167

arteri/o/rrhexis


ăr-tē-rē-ō-RĔK-sĭs


arteri/o/rrhaphy


ăr-tē-rē-OR-ă-fē


arteri/o/pathy


ăr-tē-rē-ŎP-ă-thē


arteri/o/spasm


ăr-TĒ-rē-ō-spăzm


artery


ĂR-tĕr-ē


arteries


ĂR-tĕr-ēs


stone, artery


ĂR-tĕr-ē


artery


ĂR-tĕr-ē


11


10


two

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