English for Medical Students

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Unit 1: The Cardiovascular System

Listening Activity: Stent vs. Bypass (from MayoClinic.com)

Listen to the recording describing the stents and bypass surgery; then answer the questions below by typing your answers into the boxes. Once you finished, go back and move your mouse of the "check your answer" and compare your answer with the ones provided. Then relisten to the text for extra practice.

  

Key Vocabulary Coronary Bypass Stent

 

 
1. plaques
2. narrowed
3. severity
4. extent
5. treatment of choice
6. clogged
7. balloon
8. coil
9. stent
10. prop		    

 

Deposits inside of arteries are called .  Check your answer.
The deposits are formed from .   Check your answer.
The deposits cause a of the coronary arteries.   Check your answer.
Symptoms of coronary artery disease can include and .   Check your answer.
What procedure is used to open narrowed coronary vessels?.    Check your answer.
A metal coil called a , is used to open narrowed arteries.   Check your answer.
Opening of narrowed vessels works best when the vessels are very small (True or False).    Check your answer.
When multiple vessels are blocked, my be the treatment of choice.   Check your answer.
Sections of healthy blood vessels are taken from the or and grafted onto the blocked vessel.   Check your answer.
What word from the vocabulary is similar blocked?     Check your answer.
What word from the vocabulary is similar "hold open"?     Check your answer.
What word from the vocabulary is similar "something filled with air?"     Check your answer.
What word from the vocabulary is similar "degree of damage?"     Check your answer.
What word from the vocabulary is similar "amount of damage?"     Check your answer.