All About Heart And Blood Vessels

Regurgitation Regurgitation: Back flow, usually at a leaky valve

Pulmonary Pulmonary: Relating to the lung

Polyarthritis Polyarthritis: Inflammation of multiple joints

Phlebitis Phlebitis: Inflammation of a vein

Pericardium Pericardium: Outer covering of the heart. It has two layers – visceral and parietal

Pericarditis പെരികാർഡൈറ്റിസ് എന്താണ്? Pericarditis means inflammation of the outer covering of the heart (pericardium). It can occur in an isolated fashion or along with inflammation of the inner

Percutaneous Percutaneous: Through the skin

Pancarditis Pancarditis: Inflammation of all the layers of the heart – pericardium, myocardium and endocardium

Pacemaker Pacemaker: Cardiac pacemaker is a device meant to give regular electrical pulses to the heart when the normal pacemaker function of the heart is defective.

Ostium Ostium: Opening, usually of a blood vessel.