MOD D unit 1 vocab.

Cover the outer surface of the heart

• carries blood away from heart.
• carries oxygenated blood

Surgical connection between blood vessels or the joining of 1 hollow or tubular organ to another

Slow heart rate

Muscular, middle layer of the heart

• forms through the fusion of superior mesenteric & splenic veins
• empties into the liver capillaries

[heart is larger] relaxation phase of the heart

soft blowing or rasping sound heard by auscultation of various of various parts of the body, especially in the heart

a condition of hardening of an artery

pertaining to increasing the tone of the heart, type of medication

a nerve or agent that causes dilation of blood vessels

fast heart rate

[heart is smaller] contraction phase of heart

to choke

thin

sound

blood condition

• carry blood TO heart
• carry deoxgenated blood

a condition in which there is a blood clot within the vascular system; a stationary blood clot

a benign tumor of a blood vessel

noise, a sound of venous or arterial origin heard on auscultation