Quick Medical Terminology: Chptr 6 Flashcards

alegesia

sense of pain

angi/o

vessel

arteri/o

artery

cardiac arrest

stopped heart

dactyl/o

fingers

defibrillation

heart shocked to a regular heartbeat

embolism

obstruction of a blood vessel

embolus

foreign particle in the bloodstream

esthesia

feeling, sensation

fibrillation

very fast, irregular heartbeat

myel/o

spinal cord, bone marrow

phas/o

speech

phleb/o

vein

plas/o

formation

thrombosis

blood clot occluding a vessel

thrombus

a blood clot

a-, an-

absent, without

brady-

slow

dys-

bad, difficult, painful

macro-

large

micro-

large

tachy-

fast

poly-

many

sym-, syn-

together

#NAME?

rupture, bursting apart

#NAME?

rubbing, crushing

#NAME?

blood