Heart Structures
This chamber pumps blook to the body.
What is the left ventricle?
The heart's natural pacemaker.
What is the SA node?
These veins bring blood back to the heart from the body.
What are the vena cava?
what is Ischemia?
This side of the heart carries deoxygenated blood.
What is the right side?
This wall divides the heart into left and right sides.
What is the septum?
This node delays the signal before passing it on.
What is the AV node?
This artery carries blood to the lungs.
What is the pulmonary artery?
The term for "irregular heartbeat."
What is dysrhythmia?
This is the first chamber blood enters when returning from the body.
What is the right atrium?
These structures stop blood from flowing backwards.
What are valves?
This bundle carries signals from the AV node to the ventricles.
What is the Bundle of His?
These veins bring oxygenated blood from the lungs.
What are pulmonary veins?
The medical term for heart attack.
What is myocardial infarction (MI)?
What happens to blood in the lungs?
What is becomes oxygenated?
This chamber receives oxygen-rich blood from the lungs.
What is the left atrium?
These fibers cause the ventricles to contract.
What are Purkinje fibers?
This artery sends blood to the entire body.
What is the aorta?
The condition where the heart cannot pump effectively.
What is heart failure (HF)?
Which structure ensures ventricles contract from bottom to top?
What are Purkinje fibers?
Name all four chambers of the heart.
What is the right atrium, right ventricle, left atrium, and left ventricle?
Put the electrical pathway in correct order.
What is SA node--AV node--Bundle of His--Purkinje fibers?
Give the full path of blood through the heart.
What is the vena cava--right atrium--right ventricle--pulmonary artery--lungs--pulmonary veins--left atrium--left ventricle--aorta?
A condition where plaque builds up in coronary arteries.
What is coronary artery disease (CAD)?
Explain why the left ventricle has thicker walls.
What is because it pumps blood to the entire body at higher pressure?