What is the organ?
The muscular organ that pumps blood through the circulatory system.
What is the heart?
This organ pumps the blood to deliver it to the lungs and tissues.
What is the heart?
The sudden, unexpected loss of heart function, breathing, and consciousness.
What is cardiac arrest?
The two upper chambers in the heart.
What is the atrium?
This structure prevents the backward flow of blood.
What are heart valves?
A condition in which the force of the blood against the artery walls is too high.
What is hypertension?
The lower two chambers in the heart.
What are the ventricles?
This structure sends oxygenated blood throughout the body.
What is the aorta?
The improper beating of the heart, whether irregular, too fast, or too slow.
What is arrhythmia?
The fluid that circulates in the arteries and veins, carrying oxygen to and carbon dioxide from the tissues of the body.
What is blood?
This structure carries deoxygenated blood to the lungs from the heart to become oxygenated through gas exchange.
What are pulmonary arteries?
A chronic condition of the heart in which the heart doesn't pump blood as well as it should.
What is congestive heart failure?
veins, arteries, or capillaries
What are blood vessels?
This organ transports oxygen and nutrients to the lungs and tissues, forms blood clots to prevent excess blood loss, and carries cells and antibodies that fight infection.
What is blood?
A condition in which damage occurs to the brain from interruption of its blood supply.