Heart Anatomy
Major Blood Vessels
Blood Flow
Heart Disease
Vascular Disease
100
This valve is also called the mitral valve.
What is the bicuspid valve?
100
The largest artery in the human body.
What is the aorta?
100
Blood returns to the heart by these two major veins.
What are the inferior and superior vena cavae?
100
Inflammation of the heart muscle.
What is myocarditis?
100
Hardening of the arteries.
What is arteriosclerosis?
200
This structure separates the left and right ventricles.
What is the interventricular septum?
200
Carries blood from the heart to the lungs.
What is the pulmonary artery?
200
Blood leaving the right side of the heart travels to the _____.
What are the lungs?
200
The left AV valve opens into the atrium during ventricular contraction.
What is mitral valve prolapse?
200
Elevated blood pressure.
What is hypertension?
300
This valve guards the opening between the right atrium and right ventricle.
What is the tricuspid valve?
300
This superficial vein carries blood along the inner leg and knee region.
What is the saphenous vein?
300
Blood flows through this valve when leaving the left ventricle.
What is the aortic valve?
300
Inflammation of the heart lining as a result of Strep throat.
What is bacterial endocarditis?
300
Weakness in a blood vessel wall.
What is an aneurysm?
400
This region of the heart is where the major blood vessels attach.
What is the base?
400
This artery supplies the upper arm region with blood.
What is the brachial artery?
400
Highly oxyenated blood flows from the lungs to this chamber of the heart.
What is the left atrium?
400
Neonatal opening between the atria.
What is the foramen ovale?
400
Cholesterol and fat deposits in blood vessels.
What is plaque?
500
This distal region of the heart is where ventricular contraction initiates.
What is the apex?
500
This vein returns blood from the head region.
What is the jugular vein?
500
Blood flows from the heart out to the body through this portion of the circulatory system.
What is the systemic circulation?
500
Uncoordinated contraction of the muscle in the atrial walls.
What is atrial fibrillation?
500
Formation of blood clots in the deep veins of the legs.
What is deep vein thrombosis (DVT)?
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