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Why do we use a pig heart?
Why is it similar in size and function to a human heart?
What is another name for the bicuspid valve?
What is the mitral valve?
A blockage in the coronary artery can lead to what?
What is a heart attack?
_____ carries blood away from the heart, _____ carries blood toward the heart.
What are arteries and veins?
What is the difference between the right and left side of the heart?
Why is the right thinner and the left thicker?
What is the name of the first cut made in the pig heart dissection?
What is a frontal cut?
How many chambers are in a mammalian heart?
What is four?
What is the function of the heart?
What is a muscular double pump with two functions: receiving oxygen-poor blood and oxygenated blood?
Which chambers receive the blood as it comes back to the heart?
What are atria?
What is the chordae tendineae?
Cutting into the aorta during a dissection reveals semilunar valves shaped like this geometric form.
What are semi-circles or half-moons?
This wall of tissue divides the heart's right and left sides.
What is a septum?
Why is backflow harmful?
What are the major vessels returning blood to the heart?
What are the superior and inferior vena cava and right & left pulmonary veins?
What are the
pumping = ventricle
receicing = atria
What is the best way to prevent students from cutting through both sides of the heart?
What is a probe?
Why do the inner walls of the ventricle have ridges and aren't smooth?
How does it increase the surface area, strengthen walls, and aid in pumping?
What happens if the chordae tendineae rupture?
What is sudden valve failure that causes backflow and can lead to fluid filling in the lungs?
The blood vessels where the exchange of oxygen and nutrients occurs.
Which artery originates just behind the aortic semilunar valve cusps?
What are the coronary arteries?
Sometimes the hearts we receive have a tough, outer tissue. What is this?
What is fibrous pericardium?
If there is damage to the left ventricle, it causes more severe consequences than damage to the right, why?
What is broken heart syndrome?
Following the flow of the heart, name each structure in order.
What is the
Superior/inferior vena cava, right atrium, tricuspid valve, right ventricle, pulmonary semilunar valves, pulmonary artery, lungs, pulmonary veins, left atrium, bicuspid valve, left ventricle, aortic semilunar valve, aorta?
Receives deoxygenated blood from the right atrium via the tricuspid valve, and pumps it into the pulmonary arteries via the pulmonary semilunar valve and pulmonary trunk
What is the Right Ventricle?