Parts of the Heart / Blood Flow
Vessels
Conducting System of the Heart
Cardiac Cycle
Misc
100
The upper chambers of the heart
What are atria?
100
Smallest blood vessel
What is a capillary?
100
Node that starts each contraction of the heart
What is the sinoatrial?
100
Another word for contraction
What is systole?
100
______________ carry blood away from the heart, and ______________ carry blood to the heart.
What are arteries and veins?
200
The heart chamber that receives blood from the vena cavae.
What is the right atrium?
200
Vessels that have the thickest walls
What are arteries?
200
Part of the conduction system where the impulse is delayed
What is the AV node?
200
Another word for relaxation
What is diastole?
200
Vessels that contain valves
What are veins?
300
Wall that separates the right and left sides of the heart
What is the septum?
300
The large vein that carries deoxygenated blood into the heart
What is the vena cava?
300
Impulse travels down the ________________ of the heart through the AV bundle branches.
What is the septum?
300
The tricuspid and mitral valves open during… ventricular systole ventricular diastole atrial systole atrial diastole
What is ventricular diastole?
300
Represents atrial contraction on an ECG
What is the P wave?
400
Returns blood to the heart from the lungs
What are pulmonary veins?
400
The large artery that carries oxygenated blood to all cells of the body
What is the aorta?
400
Another name for the AV bundle
What is the bundle of His?
400
The pulmonary and aortic valves open during… ventricular systole. ventricular diastole. atrial systole. atrial diastole.
What is ventricular systole?
400
Cause of the first heart sound
What is closing of the AV (tricuspid and mitral) valves?
500
Blood from the right ventricle flows through the ____________________into the __________________.
What are the pulmonary valve and pulmonary arteries?
500
Blood vessels that connect arteries to veins
What are capillaries?
500
Fibers that convey the impulse to the ventricles
What are Purkinje?
500
The part of the cardiac cycle that account for most of the ventricular filling.
What is ventricular diastole?
500
Four sustances that the circulatory system distributes to the body.
What are oxygen, carbon dioxide, hormones, nutrients?
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