Blood
Heart Anatomy
Heart Physiology
Circulation Anatomy
Circulation Physiology
100
The only type(s) of hematocyte not formed from myeloid stem cells.
What are lymphocytes?
100
The blood vessel(s) associated with the left side of the heart.
What are the aorta and the pulmonary veins?
100
The last segment of the intrinsic conduction system.
What are Purkinje fibers?
100
The structure formed by connecting arteries at the base of the brain.
What is the circle of Willis?
100
The enzyme secreted by the kidney when arterial blood pressure is low.
What is renin?
200
The definition of agglutination.
What is the clumping of foreign donor erythrocytes caused by the binding of host antibodies?
200
The types of junctions found in cells of the myocardium.
What are tight and gap junctions?
200
The definition of cardiac output.
What is the amount of blood pumped out by each side of the heart in 1 minute?
200
The role of the precapillary sphincters.
What is the regulation of blood flow into true capillaries?
200
The two properties of arteries that contribute to continuous blood flow even between heartbeats.
What are elasticity and recoil?
300
The definition of positive chemotaxis.
What is the movement of leukocytes toward certain chemicals diffusing from damaged cells?
300
The role of the chordae tendinae.
What is the anchoring of AV valve flaps in their closed position?
300
The specific event(s) corresponding to the "lub" sound of the heart.
What is the closing of the AV valves?
300
The three arterial branches of the aortic arch, in order.
What are the brachiocephalic trunk, left common carotid, and left subclavian arteries?
300
The auscultatory method.
What is the procedure used to indirectly measure systemic arterial blood pressure in the brachial artery?
400
The steps of hemostasis, in order.
What are vascular spasms, platelet plug formation, and coagulation?
400
The two names for the outermost layer of the heart wall.
What are the visceral pericardium and the epicardium?
400
The specific event(s) corresponding to the QRS complex in an EKG.
What are ventricular depolarization and atrial repolarization?
400
The unique and unusual feature of the hepatic portal circulation.
What is the feeding of capillary beds by veins into veins?
400
The definition of peripheral resistance.
What is the amount of friction encountered by flowing blood?
500
The specific role(s) of eosinophils.
What is the digestion of parasitic worms?
500
The functional blood supply.
What is the blood supply that oxygenates and nourishes the heart?
500
The critical factor controlling stroke volume, according to Starling's law of the heart.
What is the extent to which cardiac muscle cells are stretched just before they contract?
500
The three unique features of the fetal circulation.
What are the ductus venosus, foramen ovale, and ductus arteriosus?
500
The four routes for substances entering or leaving the blood through the capillary wall.
What are direct diffusion, intercellular clefts, pores, and vesicular transport?
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