A recording of the hearts electrical activity is referred to as a(n)__________.
What is electrocardiogram (or EKG, ECG)?
The valve located between the right ventricle and the pulmonary artery as blood flows away from the heart towards the lungs.
What is the pulmonary valve?
The average adult heart beats about _______ times per minute?
What is 60-100?
Another term for high blood pressure
Hypertension
The mitral valve is also known as the ___________.
What is the bicuspid valve?
The circulation from the heart to the lungs is called ________ circulation.
What is pulmonary?
A heart attack occurs when there is decreased or complete cessation of blood flow to a portion of the myocardium (heart muscle). What is the medical term for a heart attack?
What is a myocardial infarction (MI)?
What is bicuspid or mitral valve, left ventricle
Arteries carry oxygenated blood away from the heart, while veins carry deoxygenated blood to the heart.
The exceptions to this rule are the _________ arteries and veins.
What is pulmonary?
Larger veins have ________ to prevent backflow of blood.
What are valves?
The heart sounds are created by the opening and closing of _______ while blood flows through the heart.
What are valves?
The vessels that bring blood back to the heart. Inferior and superior ____________.
What is the vena cava?
When ventricles contract, the bicuspid valve prevents blood from flowing from the ____________.
What is the left ventricle to the left atrium?
What vessel pumps blood from the lungs back to the heart?
pulmonary vein
The sac or membrane that encloses the heart. It prevents friction from surrounding structures and protects the heart.
What is the pericardium?
Blood nourishing the myocardium (heart muscle) with oxygenated blood comes from vessels that branch off the aorta called______
What is coronary arteries?
The tricuspid valve is located between the ____________.
What is the right atrium and right ventricle?
This tiny blood vessel carries oxygenated blood and is the connector between the arteries and the capillaries.
What is an arteriole?