Gylys Chapter 8 CV Chapter

1. Mr. Johnson had a history of alcoholism and liver failure which caused portal hypertension and a backflow of blood resulting in enlarged and engorged esophageal veins. These kind of veins are called:

• incompetent

• varices

• hemorrhoid

• phlebitis

1. Mrs. Smith presented to the Emergency Room with complaints of chest pain. The physician orders blood work to be drawn to rule out a myocardial infarction. The blood work may show a release of all BUT one of the following substances related to heart muscle damage

• enzymes

• hormones

• proteins

• leukocytes

1. Ms. Simpson went to her doctor with mid-sternal chest pain and fever. Listening to her heart, her doctor heard a heart murmur. Because of the fever, the doctor was suspicious for bacteria that may have clumped on a heart valve. The medical term for this clumping is:

• valvular vegetation

• valvular stenosis

• valvular insufficiency

• valvular regurgitation

1. Mr. Jones complains of a cool, cyanotic, painful great toe on his left foot. The doctor is unable to palpate a dorsalis pedis pulse in that foot. The doctors preliminary diagnosis is:

• coronary artery disease

• arteriosclerosis

• phlebitis

• angina

This, usually benign tumor, mostly originates in the left atrium but can develop in other heart chambers is called

• primary cardiac tumor

• secondary cardioma

• myxoma

• endothelioma

Narrowing of any vessel, especially the aorta, is called:

• patency

• fibrillation

• coarctation

• ischemia

A rapid, slow, or irregular heartbeat is called:

• bruit

• arrhythmia

• aneurysm

• occlusion

Quivering or spontaneous muscle contraction, especially of the heart, is called:

• ischemia

• thrombosis

• fibrillation

• patency

Disease of the heart muscle is called:

• endocarditis

• cardiomyopathy

• coronary artery disease

• coronary fibrillation

An obstruction of a vessel caused by any foreign substance, including a blood clot within that vessel, is called:

• embolism

• fibroid

• infarction

• aneurysm