Endocrine
Blood
Heart Anatomy
Heart Physiology
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A protein within a cell or on the cell membrane that binds a hormone, initiating the target cell response

Hormone receptor

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The liquid extracellular matrix composed mostly of water that circulates the formed elements and dissolved materials throughout the cardiovascular system

Plasma

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The innermost layer of the heart wall

Endocardium
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Term for turbulent blood flow

Murmur

100

The disorder causing agglutination and hemolysis in an Rh+ fetus or newborn of an Rh− person

Hemolytic disease of the newborn or erythroblastosis fetalis

200

Hormone that is unable to cross plasma membrane and must utilize a secondary messenger system to exert its effect

Water soluble hormone

200

The volume percentage of erythrocytes in a sample of centrifuged blood

Hematocrit

200

Chamber of the heart that has the thickest myocardium and ejects blood through the aortic semilunar valve

The left ventricle

200

Creates the S1 lub heart sound

Closing of the AV valves

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Vessels have thinner walls, less muscle in the tunica media, and valves

Veins

300

This hormone from the adrenal cortex increases blood glucose levels and plays a role in the inflammatory response

Cortisol (glucocorticoids)

300

The most abundant plasma protein and main contributor to maintenance of osmotic pressure

Albumin
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Vessel of the heart that drains deoxygenated blood from the myocardium for return to the right atrium

Coronary sinus

300

What does the t-wave on an ECG represent?

Ventricular repolarization

300

Atrial pressure resulting from ventricular pressure is known as 

Systole

400

This hormone is released from the thyroid when hypercalcemia is present

Calcitonin

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Type of anemia caused by a genetic mutation, resulting in abnormally shaped hemoglobin and erythrocytes

Sickle cell

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The pacemaker of the cardiac conduction system, located in the roof of the right atrium

The sinoatrial (SA) node

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The amount of blood pumped by each ventricle per minute (~5.25L/min)

Cardiac output

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This clotting pathway is also called the Tissue Factor Pathway; it is a faster response and begins with damage to surrounding tissues, traumatic injury

Extrinsic pathway

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The site of production of the hormone that acts on the kidney tubules to increase water resorption

Hypothalamus

500

Blood type represented by agglutination in a well with anti-A and anti-D

Type A+

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The coronary arteries arise from which vessel?

Ascending aorta
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Which portion of the autonomic nervous system is activated when baroreceptors and chemoreceptors detect decreasing blood flow, blood pressure, and cardiac output

Sympathetic nervous system

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Type of shock that results when arterioles lose muscular tone

Vascular