Chambers and Valves
Vessels
Coverings and Layers
Cardiac Cycle
Disorders
100
The valve between the right atrium and right ventricle
What is the tricuspid valve?
100
The major vein bringing blood from the upper part of the body
What is the superior vena cava?
100
The outermost covering of the heart
What is the pericardium?
100
First chambers to contract
What are the atria?
100
Inflammation of the lining around the heart
What is pericarditis?
200
The blood first enters this chamber
What is the right atrium?
200
The largest artery in the body
What is the aorta?
200
The outer wall of the heart
What is the epicardium?
200
Myoconduction fibers
What are the Purkinje fibers?
200
Myocardial infarction
What is a heart attack?
300
The valve between the left ventricle and the aorta
What is the aortic semilunar valve?
300
Receive deoxygenated blood and takes it to the lungs
What are the pulmonary arteries?
300
The muscle of the heart that actually does the pumping
What is the myocardium?
300
The contracting of the ventricles
What is systole?
300
Rapid heart beat
What is tachycardia?
400
The chamber that is the largest and thickest
What is the left ventricle?
400
Feeds the heart muscle itself
What are the coronary arteries?
400
The thin sheet that lines the inside chambers and valves of the heart
What is the endocardium?
400
The bottom number in a blood pressure reading
What is diastole?
400
Inadequate oxygen supply
What is ischemia?
500
The first chamber to receive freshly oxygenated blood
What is the left atrium?
500
Dumps coronary blood into the right atrium
What is the coronary sinus?
500
The membrane that prevents friction as the heart pumps
What is the pericardium?
500
The pacemaker of the heart
What is the sinoatrial (SA) node?
500
Lack of oxygen, severe chest pain
What is angina pectoris?
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