Heart and Circulation Terms

A rare cancer that forms in the outer layer of tissue of the adrenal gland (a small organ on top of each kidney that makes steroid hormones, adrenaline, and noradrenaline to control heart rate…

A condition in which fluid and proteins leak out of tiny blood vessels and flow into surrounding tissues, resulting in dangerously low blood pressure.

One root with two destinations: nearly always the heart, but occasionally the stomach opening that happens to lie beside it.

An electronic device that is implanted in the body to monitor heart rate and rhythm.

A rare cancer that develops in tissues of the heart.

Cardiopulmonary describes anything involving both the heart and lungs, which work together to circulate blood and exchange oxygen and carbon dioxide.

Cardiotoxicity is heart damage or dysfunction caused by exposure to a medication or other substance, sometimes appearing only after treatment ends.

Pump and pipework are described as a single system because trouble in either one changes what reaches the tissues at the far end.

A drug used to treat high blood pressure and urinary problems caused by an enlarged prostate.

A rare, inherited disorder marked by dark spots on the skin and tumors in the heart, endocrine glands, skin, and nerves.

A rare, inherited disorder marked by dark spots on the skin and tumors in the heart, endocrine glands, skin, and nerves.

Narrowing here is one of the more treatable roads to stroke, which is why neck vessels are imaged after brief neurological symptoms.

A drug used to treat high blood pressure and certain heart problems.

A blood pressure tablet that works from inside the brain, quieting the nerve traffic that keeps vessels tight.

A tube surgically placed into a blood vessel for the purpose of giving intravenous fluid and drugs.

A procedure in which a tube is inserted into the chest to view the tissues and organs in the area between the lungs and between the breastbone and heart.

A closed loop that delivers oxygen and fuel to every cell and carries away what those cells no longer need.

The heart and its network of vessels, a closed loop delivering oxygen and fuel to tissue and carrying waste away.

An old blood pressure drug also used for ADHD, tics, hot flashes and opioid withdrawal, all through the same calming action on nerve traffic.

A drug that turns the sympathetic nervous system down at its source in the brain, which is why its uses reach far beyond blood pressure.