Anatomy of the Heart
The chamber of the heart receives de-oxygenated blood
What is the Right Atrium and the Right Ventricle?
This vessel carries oxygenated blood from the lungs to the heart?
What is the Pulmonary Vein?
This is the most common type of heart disease and is caused by plaque buildup in the arteries
What is Coronary Artery Disease?
These vessels carry blood away from the heart.
What are arteries?
This chamber pumps oxygenated blood into the aorta.
What is the left ventricle?
The valve that prevents blood from flowing back into the Left Atrium
What is the Mitral/Bicuspid Valve?
The valve that blood goes through to exit the right ventricle
What is the pulmonary valve?
The medical term for a heart attack, often caused by a blockage in a coronary artery
What is a myocardial infarction?
These tiny vessels allow nutrients and gases to be exchanged with tissues.
What are capillaries?
These valves prevent backflow between atria and ventricles
What are the atrioventricular valves?
The muscular wall that separates the left and the right ventricles of the heart
What is the Interventricular Septum?
This large artery carries blood from the left ventricle to body
What is the aorta?
An irregular heartbeat where the upper and lower chambers of the heart do not coordinate effectively
What is arrhythmia?
Blood returns to the heart through these vessels.
What are veins?
This term describes the pressure in your arteries when your heart relaxes between beats.
What is diastolic pressure? (BP)
The layer of the heart is responsible for contracting and pumping blood
What is the Myocardium?
Oxygenated blood enters this chamber of the heart from the lungs.
What is the Left Atrium?
This emergency happens when plaque breaks off and fully blocks a coronary artery.
What is an acute myocardial infarction?
These vessels control blood pressure by tightening or relaxing their muscular walls.
What are arterioles?
This chamber receives deoxygenated blood from the body.
What is the right atrium?
The heart's natural pace maker
What is the Sinoatrial (SA) node?
Oxygenated blood flows into this artery that branches of off the aorta
What is the Left Common Carotid Artery?
This type of heart failure occurs when the heart is stiff and can't fill well.
What is diastolic heart failure?
These tiny vessels connect arteries to veins and help regulate blood flow into specific organs.
What are metarterioles?
This valve prevents backflow from the pulmonary artery into the right ventricle.
What is the pulmonary semilunar valve?