Body Systems

Circulatory System

  • Cardi/o = Heart

  • Brady/Tachy = slow/fast

  • Angi/o = Vessel

  • Veno/Phlebo = Vein

  • -stasis = to stop

  • -cyte = Cell

  • Hem/o, -emia = blood

Circulatory Systems Diseases

  • Atherosclerosis - Hardening of the Arteries:

    • Fatty areas in the heart that become calcified and hard

  • Myocardial Infarction - Blockage of blood flow to the heart muscle

    • Heart Attack

  • Mitral Prolapse, Stenosis, Regurgitation:

    • The tearing of the mitral valve due to disease

    • Backflow of blood

    • Stenosis = narrowing

  • Angina Pectoris - Pain in the chest

    • crushing/vice-like

  • Arrhythmia/Dysrhythmia - abnormal heart rate

    • no rhythm

    • abnormal Rhythm

  • Ischemia - Lack of blood flow to the heart muscle

Procedures

Cardiologist - a physician specializing in the diagnosis and treatment of circulatory diseases

Hematologist - a physician specializing in diseases of the blood

Electrocardiogram - recording of the electrical activity of the heart

Echocardiography - The use of high-frequency sound waves to form an image inside the heart

  • identifies valve damage

Cardiac Catheterization - a long hollow tube that is threaded into an artery up into the heart

  • Identifies blockage and location

Phelbotomist/Venipuncturist - Trained nurse or technician drawing blood for lab test: may also start IVs

Nervous System

  • Cephal/o = head

  • Encephal/o = inside the head (Brain)

  • Mening/o Menbranes surounding the brain and spinal cord

  • Myel/o = Spinal Cord

  • Neur/o = Nerve

  • Dys = Difficult, Painful, Abnormal

  • -cele = Hernia, an abnormal protrusion of a structure out of its normal anatomical position

  • -pathy = Disease, Abnormality

  • -Plaisia = Development, formation, Growth