Anatomy
The location of the heart.
What is the chest cavity or Thorax?
A heart that has an abnormal sound.
What is a Heart Murmur?
The amount of times blood passes through the heart.
The function of the heart.
To transport nutrients throughout the body including oxygen.
The largest vein in the circulatory system.
What is the superior and inferior vena cava?
A heartbeat that is too slow, too fast, or irregular.
What is an arrhythmia?
The side of the heart deoxygenated blood passes through.
What is the right side?
When the heart weakens and doesn’t work how it should.
What is Heart failure?
The largest artery in the circulatory system.
What is the Aorta?
The period where the atria and ventricles relax.
What is diastole?
What is the left side?
The condition where the force of blood pushing against artery walls is consistently too high
What is high blood pressure or hypertension?
The valve between the atria and the ventricle.
What is the antrioventricular valve?
The period where the atria and ventricles contract.
What is systole?
The artery that carries deoxygenated blood to the…
The build up plaque in the arteries that restrict blood flow.
What is high cholesterol?
The valve between the left ventricle and the aorta.
What is the aortic valve?
What opens and closes to let blood reenter or leave the heart.
What is the antrioventricular and aortic valves?
The artery the brings oxygenated blood to the…
What is the aorta?
What is a heart attack?