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Cardiovascular and Respiratory Terms

Decode vocabulary for the heart, blood vessels, and breathing.

What to know

Look for cardi/o for heart, angi/o for vessel, and -pnea for breathing. Compare tachycardia and tachypnea. They share a speed prefix, but one describes heart rate and the other breathing.

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What does cardiomegaly mean?

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