n w 9 1

heart: card/o, cardi/o

arteries: arteri/o

capillaries: capill/o

veins: phleb/o, ven/o

blood: hem/o, hemat/o

angi/o

vessel

per-

through

end/o

within

aort/o

aorta

phag/o

to eat or swallow

-graphy

process of recording

ather/o

plaque

plast/o

growth/development

-ia

abnormal

brady-

slow

sclerosis

abnormal hardening

-itis

inflammation

cardi

heart

spasm

tightening/cramping

my/o

muscle

chromat/o

color

stenosis

abnormal narrowing

-ologist

specialist

coron/o

coronary

tachy

rapid

-oma

tumor

-crasia

mixture/blending

thromb/o

clot

-osis

abnormal

cutane

skin

valvul

valve

-ous

pertaining to

embol

something inserted

vascul

blood vessels

peri-

surrounding

-emia

blood

DON’T FORGET WORDS

plasty

surgical repair

-emia

blood condition

-al

pertaining to

-poly

many

erythr

red

-ar

pertaining to

-rrhaphy

to suture

hemangi

blood vessel

cyt/o

cell

-stasis

stopping or controlling

isch/o

to hold back

-cytes

cells

-tic

pertaining to

leuk/o

white

dys-

bad/difficult

-lytic

to destroy

ech/o

sound

necrosis

tissue death

-ectomy

surgical removal

-penia

lack, deficiency

electr/o

electric

1. polyarteritis

2. hemangioma

3. endarterectomy

4. pericarditis

5. thrombolytic

6. dyscrasia

7. angiocardiography

8. atherosclerosis

9. myocarditis

10. hemochromatosis

11. phagocytosis

12. leukocytopenia

13. hematologist

14. endarterectomy

15. ischemia

16. bradycardia

17. phlebitis

18. angiography

19. erythrocytosis

20. thrombocytopenia

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