Blood Pressure and Cardiovascular Diseases

Abnormal sound heard during auscultation of the heart, such as a whooshing sound

• dysarthria

• Murmur

• premature ventricular contractions

• tachycardia

Condition of lower-than normal blood pressure

• bradytension

• hypertension

• hypotension

• eupneatension

Tags

NGSS.HS-LS1-3

Condition in which the mitral valve doesn’t close properly; may cause blood leakage back into left atrium

• Mitral tamponade

• Mitral valve prolapse

• Cardiac tamponade

• Mitral Valve Congestion

Tissue death in the heart muscle resulting from an occluded coronary artery

• Angina

• Coronary Artery Disease

• Myocardial infarction

• Myocarditis

Pathological condition in which excess fluid build up in the pericardium.

• Pericarditis

• atrial fibrillation

• Cardiac tamponade

• Heart Murmur

Condition of diseased heart muscle

• Cardiomyopathy

• atherosclerosis

• cardiopathology

• atrial flutter

Condition in which the atria beat more rapidly than the ventricles, causing a quivering movement

• Ventricular flutter

• atrial flutter

• atrial fibrillation

• ventricular fibrillation

Clot that stays attached to the wall of a blood vessel

• Hemorrhagic

• embolus

• thrombus

• aneurysm

Bluish or purplish discoloration of the skin, caused by decreased circulation of oxygen-rich blood

• Petechia

• Cardidiscoloration

• Circuabnormality

• Cyanosis

Tags

NGSS.HS-LS1-7

abnormally low heart rate below 60bpm

• tachycaria

• bradypnea

• bradycardia

• tachypnea

Tags

NGSS.HS-LS1-3