Heart Structures
The vena cava empty into this chamber of the heart.
What is the right atrium?
This valve is located between the left atrium and left ventricle.
What is the mitral or bicuspid valve?
What does CHF stand for?
What is Congestive Heart Failure?
Blood pressure is defined as...
What is systole?
This chamber of the heart has the thickest muscular layer due to its responsibility of pumping blood through the aorta and to the rest of the body.
What is the left ventricle?
This heart valve is located between the right ventricle and the pulmonary artery.
What is sudden or excessive flow?
The blood pressure 118/66 would be classified as normal, hypertensive, or hypotensive?
What is normal?
This phase of the heartbeat occurs when the ventricles are relaxed and are filling with blood.
What is diastole?
This muscular wall separates the heart into right and left sides.
What is the septum?
This heart valve is located between the left ventricle and the aorta.
What is the aortic valve?
What is Cerebrovascular Accident?
Your patient's blood pressure is 135/82. This is considered normal, hypertensive, or hypotensive?
What is hypertensive?
This heart sound is caused by the closing of the tricuspid and mitral/bicuspid valves closing.
What is s1?
This is the outer protective layer of the heart.
What is the epicardium?
This heart valve is located between the right atrium and the right ventricle.
What is the tricuspid valve?
The abbreviation H&P Stands for...
What is History and Physicial?
This is the pressure of the walls of the arteries during ventricular contraction.
What is systolic pressure?
This heart sound is causing by the pulmonic and aortic valves closing.
What is s2?
This is the muscular middle layer of the heart.
What is the myocardium?
What are the tricuspid and mitral/bicuspid valves?
The word erythrocyte means....
This is the pressure of the blood against the walls of the arteries during ventricular relaxation/filling.
What is diastolic pressure?
This heart sound correlates with the peripheral pulses.
What is s1?