Heart Anatomy, Blood Pressure
What are the two upper chambers of the heart called?
What is atria?
What exchanges across the walls of capillaries?
What is gases and small molecules?
What is the oval opening in between and what does it bypass?
What is left and right atrium, bypasses the pulmonary circuit?
What is blood pressure?
What is the pressure of blood in blood vessels that push molecules out of blood (capillaries) and through arteries?
This is a disk shaped cell that does not have a nucleus.
What is red blood cell/erythrocyte?
What does the T-wave in an ECG represent?
What is ventricular repolarization?
Which blood vessel contains about 75% of the body’s blood?
What is veins?
Do fetal lungs provide oxygen?
What is nope?
True or False: Blood pressure is basically constant, but osmotic pressure varies considerable around a capillary bed.
What is FALSE?
This liquid portion of blood makes up 55% of total blood volume and is composed mostly of water.
What is plasma?
A patient experiences shortness of breath, faster than usual heartbeats, and heart murmurs. They have records of having rheumatic fever from childhood. Which structure(s) of the heart is affected and what is one treatment for this condition?
What is heart valves and surgery?
In the pulmonary circuit, before blood enters the pulmonary veins, which blood vessel is it at and what is being exchanged at the blood vessel?
What is pulmonary capillaries, CO2 and O2 exchanged.
Umbilical arteries are grafted to what?
What is the iliac arteries?
What type of blood cell is a lymphocyte?
What is a white blood cell/leukocyte?
Produced in the liver, this specific blood protein is responsible for maintaining osmotic pressure
What is albumin?
On a patient’s ECG, the segment between T and P is much longer than usual. The patient reports feeling dizzy, fatigued, and chest pain. What condition is the patient experiencing, what heart structure is working improperly, and what is the heart not getting enough of?
What is bradycardia, SA node, and oxygen?
A passenger on a very long car ride reports having stiff and achy legs. Upon checking, they also find that their legs have swelled up. What is the main blood vessel involved and how can the passenger reduce the stiffness, achiness, and swelling?
What is veins, they can move and stretch their legs.
Why do chemicals ingested by the mother affect the baby so much? What does it bypass and what is delivering the nutrients?
The nutrients bypasses the liver of the fetus so they don't get filtered?
A 52-year-old woman notices that her left arm has become swollen, heavy, and tight over the past few months. The swelling started after she underwent surgery to remove several lymph nodes during breast cancer treatment. Her doctor says there is no blood clot or infection. What lymphatic system disorder is she most likely experiencing?
What is a buildup of lymph fluid caused by damage or removal of lymph nodes which prevent proper draining?
This is the name of the condition where a Rh- mother’s antibodies destroy the red blood cells of her second Rh- fetus
What is fetal erythroblastosis?