Anatomy
The four chambers of the heart.
What are the left/right atria and ventricles?
The average heart rate for an adult.
What is 60-100 bpm?
The leading cause of death in adults in the United States.
What is coronary artery disease (CAD)?
The medical term for heart attack.
What is myocardial infarction?
The largest artery attached to the heart.
What is the aorta?
Structure that helps regulate blood flow to the capillary beds.
What are precapillary sphincters?
When your resting blood pressure is consistently over 140/90.
What is hypertension?
The cell that carries oxygen in your blood (medical name only).
What is erythrocyte?
Tendons that anchor the valves to the wall of the heart.
What are the chordae tendinae?
The term for the pressure within the arteries when the ventricles are relaxed.
What is diastolic?
Disease causing the narrowing of the blood vessels due to fatty plaque build up.
What is atheroosclerosis?
The term for extreme chest pain.
What is angina pectoris?
The valve between the left atria and left ventricle.
What is the mitral valve?
Known as the pacemaker of the heart.
What is the sinoatrial (SA) node?
The procedure to clear blocked arteries.
What is an angioplasty?
The reason for using aspirin to treat patients who have had a heart attack.
What is: to prevent new blood clots from forming?
The membrane that encloses the heart.
What is the pericardium?
The segment of the heart contraction represented by the QRS complex.
What is ventricular depolarization?
What is swelling (edema) in distal extremities?
The main cause of death from heart attacks.
What is fibrillation?