anatomy
of heart
of heart
The outermost thin, tough sac covering the heart.
What is the pericardium?
This valve lets blood into the right ventricle.
What is the tricuspid valve?
Amount of blood pumped by each side of the heart in one minute
What is cardiac output?
Caused by smoking, obesity, lack of physical activity, high salt diet, excess alcohol, and genetics.
What is hypertension (high BP)?
The type of tissue that blood is.
What is Connective Tissue?
Muscle wall of the heart that contains blood vessels and nerves.
What is the myocardium?
Fibrous valves that connect atria to ventricles and only permit blood flow in one direction.
Volume of blood pumped by each ventricle in one contraction, doesn't change much.
What is stroke volume?
What is systolic?
3 formed elements of blood.
What are platelets, white blood cells, and red blood cells?
On the top left when looking at a classic heart diagram.
What is the right atrium?
Delivers blood from head, neck, upper limbs, and chest. Receives O2 poor blood.
What is the Superior Vena Cava?
The equation for cardiac output.
What is heart rate times stroke volume?
Blood pressure is highest as blood leaves this location.
What is the aorta?
The formed elements that are cell fragments containing enzymes for clotting.
What are platelets?
Between pericardium and epicardium.
What is the pericardial cavity?
Inner surface of ventricles contain these muscular ridges.
What are trabeculae carneae?
Greater fitness causes stroke volume to____.
What is increase?
The inner lining of blood vessels is worn away due to this.
What is continual high blood pressure?
The type of blood cell that is destroyed in the liver and spleen after death.
What are red blood cells?
Left and right are extensions above the atria allowing for increased volume on each atria.
What are auricles?
Arteries lead oxygenated blood out of the heart except this type takes deoxygenated blood to the lungs.
What are the pulmonary arteries?
The normal percentage of blood the left ventricle pumps out with each beat.
What is 55-70%?
Official name of blood pressure cuff
What is sphygmomanometer?
All blood cells originate from this type of cell in the bone marrow.
What is a hematopoietic stem cell?