What is an aneurysm?

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What is an aneurysm?

• A ballooning out of a blood vessel
• May be inherited
• May be the result of injury
• May be the result of arterial or venous blockage,
  i.e. clot or embolus

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• The artery that accompanies the jugular vein

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• What is the carotid artery?

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• The name of the clear jelly like substance that
  fills the eyeball

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• What us the vitreous humor?

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• The gland that is found along with the heart in
  the mediastinum

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• What is the thymus gland?

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• The blood disorder associated with the inability
  of the platelets to clot

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• What is hemophilia?

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• A blood disorder primarily associated with
  African Americans

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What is arteriosclerosis?What is atherosclerosis?

• They both causes narrowing and hardening of the
  vessel walls
• Due to high cholesterol which is both inherited
  and dietary
• By narrowing the vessels, high blood pressure
  results
• Both are high risk conditions for heart disease

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What is congestive heart failure?

• The heart is failing. It cannot pump enough to
  supply the body it is in.
• Heart is a weakened muscle from abuse.
• Symptoms General edema, cyanosis, pallor, rapid
  pulse, but a weak pulse, chest congestion and
  kidney failure, lung congestion.

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Medical Jeapardy Cardiac section
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• It is the name of the wall between the right and
  left halves of the heart

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• What is the septum?

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• It is the name of the valve that prevents blood
  flow from the left ventricle to the left atrium

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• What is the Mitral or bicuspid valve?

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• It is the type of blood vessel where diffusion of
  oxygen, nutrients and carbon dioxide actually
  occurs

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• What is a capillary?

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• It is the name for the disease whereby blood
  clots in a vein

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• What is phlebitis?

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• Its what happens to arteries when one smokes a
  cigarette or drinks caffeine

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• What is constriction?

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• It is the name of the organs one smells with in
  the nose

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• What are olfactory cells?

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• Its surface is covered with many sensory papillae

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• What is the tongue?

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• They restrain the heart valves from flapping to
  far into the atria

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• What are the chordae tendinae (heart strings)?

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• He is the American doctor who invented heart
  transplantations and bypass surgery

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• Who is Dr. Denton Cooley?

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• This is the type of doctor who specializes in
  heart disease

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• What is a cardiologist?

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• These are the only blood vessels that have valves

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• What are veins?

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• It is the location of the heart in the thorax

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• What is the mediastinum?

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• It is the upper number when one describes ones
  blood pressure measurements

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• What is systolic blood pressure?

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• It is the name of the instrument one uses to
  measure blood pressure

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• What is a sphygmomanometer?

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• It is the name of the artery that would go to the
  liver

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• What is the hepatic artery?

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• It means a ballooning out of a damaged blood
  vessel

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• What is an aneurysm?

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