HSCI 125 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Heart Valve, Stomach, Pressure Measurement

• School: Drexel University
• Department: Health Sciences
• Course: HSCI 125
• Professor: Smith Sinclair

Document Summary

Identify and define the combining forms and suffixes introduced in this chapter. Powerpoint slides: 7 10 vessel aorta artery fatty substance atrium heart heart body plug to hold back heart muscle pulse chest clot valve valve dilated vein blood vessel vessel, duct vein ventricle. Combining forms angi/o aort/o arteri/o ather/o atri/o cardi/o coron/o corpor/o embol/o isch/o myocardi/o sphygm/o steth/o thromb/o valv/o valvul/o varic/o vascul/o vas/o ven/o ventricul/o. Prefix instrument to measure pressure small pressure pertaining to tone small di- two. A small (narrow in diameter) artery arteri/o = artery. Ary = pertaining to inter- = between atri/o = atrium. Al = pertaining to arterial arteriole atrial atrioventricular atri/o = atrium pertaining to the atrium and ventricle ventricul/o = ventricle. Ar = pertaining to cardiac coronary interatrial interventricular inter- = between myocardial valvular vascular venous ventricular venule ventricul/o = ventricle. Ar = pertaining to myocardi/o = heart muscle. Ar = pertaining to vascul/o = blood vessel.