Category: A

Ability to contract without neural stimulation. The unique property of cardiac muscle tissue to contract without nervous stimulation.  

Temporary disappearance of sounds at the end of Korotkoff phase I and the beginning of phase II while listening with a stethoscope. A silent period in the knocking sounds heard with a stethoscope over an artery, between the systolic and diastolic blood pressures, when the blood pressure is measured with a sphygmomanometer.  

Method of increasing force and effectiveness of chest muscles by placing the palm of the hand on the abdominal musculature below the ribs during expiration and then removing the hand during inspiration.  

Abnormal sensations of sound that precede a seizure.  

Impaired comprehension of spoken words in the presence of normal hearing.  

Vaccine in which the antigen’s ability to produce disease has been lessened or eliminated by heat or chemical measures; after inoculation, mild symptoms may result.  

Nonverbal signs indicating focused listening, or interest in what another person is communicating.  

Refers to a combination of defects in the atrial and ventricular septa and portions of tricuspid and mitral valves.  

Surgical repair of a defect in the partition between the atria of the heart.  

Early or out-of-sequence contraction of the atrium of the heart.