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Parent topics
- Physiology [r]: The study of the mechanical, physical, and biochemical functions of tissues and how they interact. [e]
- Medicine [r]: The study of health and disease of the human body. [e]
- Cardiology [r]: The subspecialty of internal medicine concerned with the cardiovascular system [e]
Subtopics
- Blood [r]: The body fluid that circulates in the vascular system (i.e., blood vessels). Whole blood includes plasma and blood cells. National Library of Medicine [e]
- Blood pressure [r]: Pressure of the blood on the arteries and other blood vessels (National Library of Medicine). [e]
- Electrocardiogram [r]: Recording of the electrical activity of the heart on a moving strip of paper. [e]
- Heart [r]: The hollow, muscular organ that maintains the circulation of the blood. National Library of Medicine [e]
- Heart failure [r]: Defective cardiac filling and/or impaired contraction and emptying, resulting in the heart's inability to pump a sufficient amount of blood to meet the needs of the body tissues or to be able to do so only with an elevated filling pressure (National Library of Medicine). [e]
- Hemorrhage [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Hypertension [r]: A multisystem disease whose hallmark is the elevation of blood pressure. [e]
- Hypotension [r]: Add brief definition or description}
- Shock [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Sphygmomanometer [r]: Instrument for indirect measurement of blood pressure in the arteries. [e]
- Stethoscope [r]: Instruments intended to detect and study sound produced by the heart, lungs, or other parts of the body, sometimes with electronic amplification [e]
