Anatomy of the Heart
The valve prevents back flow from the left ventricle into the left atrium.
What is the mitral valve (bicuspid valvue)
What are capillaries?
What is the systolic pressure?
The protein the in red blood cells that carries oxygen.
What is hemoglobin?
A surgical procedure to replace a diseased heart with a healthy donor heart.
What is a heart transplant?
The name of the hearts primary pacemaker?
What is the sinotrial (SA) node
This type of blood vessel carries blood away from the heart.
What are arteries?
A blood pressure reading consistently above 140/90mmHg indicates this condition.
What is hypertension?
The liquid portion of blood.
What is plasma?
A device implanted to regulate the heart beat.
What is a pacemaker?
What is the myocardium?
These vessels have valves to prevent backflow of blood.
What are veins?
The term for the difference between systolic and diastolic pressure.
What is pulse pressure?
The cells responsible for blood clotting.
What are platelets or thrombocytes?
Using electric shocks to restore a normal heart rhythm.
What is defibrillation?
These vessels supply the heart muscle itself with oxygenated blood.
What are the coronary arteries?
The largest artery in the body?
What is the aorta?
The term for the bottom number in a blood pressure reading.
What is diastolic pressure?
The cells that are part of the immune system and fight off infection.
What are white blood cells or leukocytes?
This is the result of blocked arteries.
What is a heart attack?
This chamber of the heart receives deoxygenated blood from the superior and inferior vena cava.
What is the right atrium?
This is the name for the small arteries that deliver blood to capillaries.
What are arterioles?
The type of receptor in the body is sensitive to change in blood pressure
What is barorecptors?
The process of blood cell formation.
What is hematopiesis?
The fluid in the lungs or body that can result from the poor pumping from the heart.
What is congestive heart failure