The Heart
The four chambers of the heart
What are the left and right atrium + left and right ventricle?
The name of the big ARTERY where all the blood leaves the heart
What is the aorta?
The artery on the little finger side of the forearm
What is the ulnar artery?
The main vein that drains the blood from the leg
What is the external iliac vein?
The side of the neck
What is the carotid pulse?
The number of valves in the heart
What is four?
The name of the big VEIN where all the blood drains into the heart
What is the vena cava?
The vein that flows through the middle of the elbow
What is the median cubital vein?
The artery which flows behind the knee
What is the popliteal artery?
The thumb-side of your wrist
What is the radial pulse?
The place where blood goes to get oxygenated
What is the lungs?
The special feature of veins that stops the backflow of blood
What is valves?
The two artery-vein pairs of the shoulder region which share a name
What are the subclavian and axillary vessels?
The vein which drains blood from the head and neck
What is the jugular vein?
Underneath your biceps
What is your brachial pulse
The direction that blood flows through the heart
What is right atrium, right ventricle, left atrium, left ventricle?
The feature that is prominent in arteries, and provides blood pressure
What is smooth muscle?
What are the palmar arches?
The colour of deoxygenated blood
What is dark red?
The inside of your thigh
What is the femoral pulse
The connective tissue that moves the heart valves
What is the chordae tendineae?
The job of the capillaries
What is transferring nutrients and gases to/from the body
The blood vessels which you can see on the surface of the skin
What are superficial veins?
The group of superficial veins around the shin and thigh
What are the saphenous veins?
The reason you can't measure a pulse with your thumb