Anatomy of Heart
Name that Vessel
Conduction
Key Terms
Misc Vessel
100
Muscular layer of the heart
What is the myocardium?
100
Vessels that provides the myocardium oxygen and nutrients.
What are the coronary arteries?
100
Thread like conduction fibers throughout the ventricles.
What are Purkinje fibers?
100
The heart's innermost layer.
What is the endocardium?
100
Single cell, allowing passage of oxygen, CO2, glucose to pass.
What is a capillary?
200
Left AV valve.
What is the bicuspid valve or mitral valve?
200
The vessel that takes oxygen poor blood away from the kidney.
What is the renal vein?
200
When reading an EKG, #1 is known as this wave.
What is the p wave?
200
Narrowing of the valve
What is stenosis?
200
Also known as the "smallest viens".
What are venules?
300
Known as the receiving units of the heart?
What are the atria?
300
These veins are sometimes "borrowed" by cardiac surgeons to bypass clogged coronary arteries.
What are the Saphenous veins?
300
The EKG wave form that is the ventricle resetting or repolarizing.
What is the T wave?
300
Multiple connections between the arteries.
What is anastomoses?
300
Connects arteries to capillaries
What is an arteriole?
400
Keeps the blood within the ventricles from mixing.
What is the intraventricular septum?
400
This vessel supplies the liver with oxygen rich blood.
What is the hepatic artery?
400
This conduction anatomy allows the message to travel from the right atrium to the intraventricular septum.
What is the Bundle of HIS?
400
Pacemaker of the heart.
What is the SA node?
400
Thinner walled vessel with valves to prevent backflow.
What are veins?
500
Membranous sac that encloses the heart.
What is the pericardium?
500
The saying, "He went for the jugular" implies he went for the vessel located here.
What is the vein in the neck?
500
The EKG wave form that is missing from this picture.
What is the QRS?
500
Outside help facilitating venous blood toward the heart.
What is the skeletal muscle pump?
500
Contains 3 layers: tunica intima, tunica media, and tunica adventitia.
What is an artery?