CLA 3381 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Varicose Veins, Raynaud Syndrome, Claudico
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Hypertension: hyper- above, more than normal tens/o- pressure, tension. Prehypertension: pre- before, in front of tens/o- pressure, tension. Ion action, condition: 120/80 mmhg - 140/90 mmhg. Hypotension: hypo below, deficient, lower than 90/60 mmhg. Orthostatic hypertension: ortho- straight, stat/o- standing still, staying in one place. Necrotic: necr/o- dead cells, tissue, body. Thrombophlebitis thromb/o- thrombus (blood clot: phleb/o- vein, phlebitis with a formation of a blood clot (thrombus) Raynaud"s disease: sudden, severe vasoconstriction and spasm of the arterioles in the fingers and toes. Varicose veins: varic/o- varix, varicose veins, from the greek word varicosus meaning full of dilated veins. Plasma (makes up 55% of the blood: plasm/o- plasma. Lyte dissolved substance: electrolytes : ionized salts (na,+, k+, ca++) Formation of an erythrocyte (1) stem cell (2) erythroblast: erythr/o- red. Blast immature cell (3) normoblast: norm/o- normal, usual. Blast immature cell (4) released in the blood as reticulocyte reticul/o- small network.
