Anatomy of the Heart
What is the name of the muscle that pumps blood throughout the body?
What is the Heart?
What type of blood vessel carries oxygenated blood away from the heart?
What are the arteries?
What type of blood cell carries oxygen throughout the body?
What are Red blood cells?
What is the primary function of the cardiovascular System?
What is transporting oxygen, nutrients, and waste?
Which condition is caused by the blockage of blood flow to the heart muscle?
What is a heart attack?
The left side of the heart pumps blood to which part of the body?
What is the body (systemic Circulation)?
Which blood vessels are responsible for the exchange of gases and nutrients with tissues?
What are the capillaries?
What blood type is known as the "Universal Donor"?
What is O Negative?
What is the process of oxygen exchange in the lungs called?
What is external respiration?
What is the term for the hardening of the arteries?
What is atherosclerosis?
What valve separates the left atrium from the left ventricle?
What is the Bicuspid valve (or Mitral valve)?
Which blood vessel carries deoxygenated blood back to the heart?
What are the veins?
Which blood cells are responsible for fighting infections?
What are white blood cells?
What is the function of the coronary arteries?
They supply blood to the heart
What is the condition where the heart cannot pump blood effectively?
What is heart failure?
What is the term for the small electrical impulses that regulate the heartbeat?
What is the SA node (Sinoatrial node)?
What is the name of the largest artery in the body?
What is the aorta?
What is the name of the protein in the red blood cells that binds to oxygen?
What is hemoglobin?
What is the term for high blood pressure?
What is hypertension?
Which condition results from an abnormal rhythm of the heart?
What is arrhythmia?
The pulmonary circuit involves blood flow between the heart and which organ?
What are the lungs?
What is the name of the blood vessel that supplies blood to the heart muscle itself?
What are the coronary arteries?
What is the name of the clotting cell in blood?
What are platelets?
What is the process of blood clotting known as?
What is coagulation?
What is the medical term for a stroke caused by a blockage in the brain's blood vessels?
What is an ischemic stroke?