Traveling with a RBC
Blood returning from the body enters the heart through these vessels.
What are the superior and inferior vena cava?
This structure is the heart's natural pacemaker.
What is the SA node?
These blood vessels carry blood away from the heart.
What are arteries?
This condition occurs when the heart cannot pump enough blood to meet the body's needs.
What is CHF/heart failure?
This med term means within, inner
What is endo-
This chamber receives oxygenated blood from the lungs.
What is the left atrium?
This EKG wave represents the electrical activity that causes the atria to contract.
What is the P wave?
These blood cells carry oxygen using hemoglobin.
What are red blood cells?
This is another name for a heart attack.
What is myocardial infarction (MI)?
What is thrombo-
After leaving the right ventricle, blood travels through this vessel to the lungs.
What is the pulmonary artery?
This part of the EKG represents ventricular depolarization.
What is the QRS complex?
This is the smallest type of blood vessel and is where exchange of gases, nutrients, and wastes occurs.
What is a capillary?
This condition occurs when the coronary arteries become narrowed or blocked by plaque.
What is coronary artery disease (CAD)?
This med term means slow
What is brady-
Put these in order: left ventricle, lungs, right atrium, left atrium, right ventricle.
Right atrium → right ventricle → lungs → left atrium → left ventricle
Put the major conduction structures in order: AV node, SA node, Purkinje fibers, Bundle of His.
SA node → AV node → Bundle of His → Purkinje fibers
This blood component makes up most of the liquid portion of blood and transports cells, nutrients, hormones, and wastes.
What is plasma?
This condition is commonly called high blood pressure.
What is hypertension (HTN)?
This med term means blood condition
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Blood leaves the left ventricle through this valve and then enters this major artery.
What are the aortic valve and aorta?
On an EKG, this wave represents ventricular repolarization.
What is the T wave?
Name the four major formed elements of blood.
What are RBCs, WBCs, plasma and platelets?
This general term describes an abnormal heart rhythm, such as a heart rate that is too fast, too slow, or irregular.
What is an arrhythmia?
This med term means abnormal hardening
What is -sclerosis