front 1 Adventitia | back 1 The outermost layer of an artery composed of elastic connective tissue |
front 2 Claudication | back 2 Severe pains in the muscle of the lower leg caused by poor circulation of blood to the muscle; usually caused by atherosclerosis |
front 3 Capillaries | back 3 The smallest blood vessels; composed of a single layer of endothelial cells where oxygen and carbon dioxide exchange occurs |
front 4 Bifurcation | back 4 Division into two branches; “Y” shaped |
front 5 Contralateral | back 5 The opposite side |
front 6 Embolus | back 6 A piece of tissue, thrombus, air, or gas that circulates in the circulatory system until it becomes lodged in a vessel |
front 7 Fogarty embolectomy catheter | back 7 A type of catheter that is small in diameter and is balloon-tipped; used to facilitate the removal of an embolus. |
front 8 Intima | back 8 Inner layer of the arterial vessel wall |
front 9 in situ | back 9 At the site of origin, or in its normal place |
front 10 morbidity | back 10 Pertaining to disease. |
front 11 Mortality | back 11 Pertaining to death |
front 12 Pledget | back 12 Small square of Teflon sutured over a hole in a vessel; it exerts external pressure over any small needle holes to prevent bleeding and to promote clotting; often used in peripheral vascular surgery |
front 13 Occlusion | back 13 An obstruction |
front 14 Patency | back 14 The condition of being wide open |
front 15 Plethysmography | back 15 An instrument for measuring the amount of blood present in an extremity or passing through it; useful in patients with diffuse, small-vessel arterial disease |
front 16 Thrombus | back 16 Stationary blood clot within a blood vessel |
front 17 Valve | back 17 A membranous fold in a passage that prevents backflow of material passing through it |
front 18 Valves | back 18 A membranous fold in a passage that prevents backflow of material passing through it |
front 19 Pledgets | back 19 Small square of Teflon sutured over a hole in a vessel; it exerts external pressure over any small needle holes to prevent bleeding and to promote clotting; often used in peripheral vascular surgery |