Heart Structure
The name of the upper two chambers of the heart.
What is the Atrium?
The circuit that sends oxygen-poor blood to the lungs that comes back to the heart oxygen-rich.
What is the Pulmonary Circuit?
The term for when the heart contracts.
What is Systole?
The name of the mixture that contains plasma, red blood cells, white blood cells, platelets, and dissolved molecules.
What is Whole Blood?
The organ that pumps blood throughout the body.
What is the Heart?
The pulmonary arteries in also known as this.
What is the Pulmonary Trunk?
Blood Vessels that send blood back to the heart.
What are Veins?
Considered a healthy blood pressure number.
What is 120/80?
Name of the protein that can bind oxygen.
What is Hemoglobin?
A name for a closed of delivery routes that begins and ends at the heart that includes veins and arteries.
What are Blood Vessels?
Blood travels back to the heart from the body via this vein.
What is the Vena Cava?
The circuit that provides oxygen and nutrients to the heart.
What is the Coronary Circuit?
What are Pacemaker Cells?
The name for Red Blood Cell Antigens.
What is Agglutinogens?
The specific name for the muscle in the heart that is responsible for contraction of the heart to pump blood.
What is the Myocardium?
The name of the valve that is a gateway between the right atrium and ventricle also known as the Right AV Valve.
What is the Tricupsid Valve?
The transfer point for blood between veins and arteries.
What are Capillaries?
When Blood rushes out of ventricles and into the aorta and pulmonary trunk.
What is Ventricular Ejection?
The fast and localized process the body uses to stop bleeding.
What is Hemostasis?
The heart is composed of this type of muscle tissue.
The chamber of the heart that has the thickest myocardium in which can exert the most amount of pressure.
What is the Left Ventricle?
The blood vessel that has the thinnest walls.
What are Capillaries?
The name for the system that allows for Action Potentials that pacemaker cells can trigger in the heart.
What is the Intrinsic Cardiac Conduction System?
What is Copper?
The sound AV valves produce when they close.
What is Lub?