Structure of Heart
AKA as the heart strings - which are cord like tendons that connect the papillary muscles to the valve.
What is the Chordae Tendineae?
Veins from the legs and lower torso feed into this before emptying into the right atrium of the heart.
What is the Inferior Vena Cava?
The poorly oxygenated blood from the body flows into this atrium.
What is the right atrium?
Causes swelling and irritation of the pericardium, at times causing chest pain.
What is Pericarditis?
Range of average heartbeat for a healthy adult.
What is between 60-100 beats per minute?
Three layers that make up the heart wall.
What is the epicardium, myocardium, & endocardium?
Is the vessel that transports oxygen-rich blood from the lungs to the left atrium.
What is the Pulmonary vein?
The right ventricle pumps blood to the _____ where it exchanges waste products and picks up fresh molecules of oxygen.
What are the lungs?
The three layers of the veins and arteries.
What are Tunica Intima, Tunica Media, & Tunica Externa?
Two distinct heart sounds heard in every cardiac cycle.
What is "lub dub" or S1 & S2 heart sounds?
The four chambers of the heart
What are the Right and Left Atrium & Right and Left ventricle?
Largest single blood vessel that branches off and circulates oxygen rich blood to various areas of the body.
What is the Aorta?
The fresh Oxygenated rich blood returns to the heart entering the _______.
What is the left atrium?
If your BP is too high, this is referred to as _______.
What is hypertension?
Is called the Widow Maker
What is the Left Anterior Descending Coronary Artery?
The four valves of the heart.
What are the Tricupsid, Mitral, Pulmonary and Aortic Valves?
The heart is fed nutrients and oxygen from these arteries.
What are the Coronary Arteries?
Blood flows through the right atrium into the _______.
What is the Right Ventricle?
Is the contraction phase of the cardiac cycle.
What is the systole?
Normal average arterial blood pressure.
What is 120/80?
The thickest layer of the heart
What is the myocardium?
The vessel that transports deoxygenated blood from the right ventricle to the lungs.
What is the Pulmonary Artery?
The type of circulation that carries blood to and from the lungs.
What is Pulmonary Circulation?
Is the amount of blood that one ventricle can eject each minute.
What is Cardiac output?
Is the pulse point that is heard with a stethoscope, located on the left side of chest, slightly below the nipple.
What is Apical pulse?