Top Hat Exam #4

Cor pulmonale

heart

Surgical incision into the lower chamber of the heart.

Ventriculotomy

An enlargement of the upper chamber of the heart.

atriomegaly

Surgical reconstruction of a valve.

cuspidate

point, pointed, points

Combining form for Bicuspid

mitr/o, mitral/o

Capillaria hepatica

capillary

Phlebotomos verrucarum 

Brachiocephalic artery

Head

Trifurcation

splitting, fork, forking, forked, split, splitting

Translate the second word facies cuspidis 

of the point/of the cuspid

Your patient exhibits tachycardia with anisosphygmia.

unequal

Your patient has had cardiac ablation for idioventricular tachycardia

individual/distinct/particular

Word used for excessive sweating. A patient comes to your office c/o profuse sweating, racing heartbeats, and an oppressive pressure in the chest. 

hyperhidrosis/diaphoresis/sudoresis

combining form for Stethoscope

chest

Swollen twisted vain

What does the root in transluminal mean. Your patient is having a percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty.

light/lumen

What is being removed. Your patient had a coronary atherectomy.

plaque/fatty plaque

Your patient has cardiac tamponade due to pathological changes in the parietal pericardium.

wall/outer walls of the cavity

Acute pulmonary embolism (PE) and deep vein thrombosis are confirmed by computed tomography (CT) and ultrasonography, respectively.

clot

combining form for moving clot

embol/o

Serosanguineous fluid is a type of wound drainage, or exudate, secreted by an open wound in response to tissue damage.

blood/bloody

Evidence-based guideline update: Plasmapheresis in neurologic disorders

transmission/bearing

The fluid left over after the coagulation of blood is called ________.

serum

Based on its combining form, a reticulocyte looks like it has a little

________.

little net/small net

The Eocene spans the time from the end of the Paleocene Epoch to the beginning of the Oligocene Epoch.

dawn

what does Anemia literally mean

condition of no blood

Splenitis

lienitis

What structure is being affected in Lymphadenopathy

lymph nodes