Heart Structure
The muscular wall separating the heart into right and left sides
What is a septum?
What is the aorta?
The smallest veins in the heart are
What are capillaries?
Another name for red blood cells
What is erythrocytes?
An ideal blood pressure is
What is 120/80?
Which large veins carry blood into the right atrium?
Vena Cavas
This carries blood to the lungs.
What is the pulmonary artery?
As the atrium are filling and the ventricles contract this process is called
What is Systole
What blood cells fight off infection?
What is Leukocytes?
This disorder is caused by the heart muscles not working properly
What is congestive heart failure?
What is the Pericardium?
This is the valve between the left atrium and left ventricle.
What is the mitral valve?
Blood inside the right side of the heart is low on ____ and high in _____
Heart attack is also known as
What is myocardial infarction?
A foreign substance (clot, air) floating in the blood stream
What is an embolism?
The muscle layer of the heart
This valve is located between the left ventricle and aorta
What is the aortic valve?
What is pacemaker?
What condition causes the red blood cells to sickle?
What is Sickle Cell Anemia?
A malignant disease of the bone marrow
What is leukemia?
What is Tricuspid Valve?
The heart is located in this cavity of the body.
What is the mediastinal cavity?
The part of the cardiac cycle that consists of a brief period of rest is
What is Diastole?
What is the term for slow heart rate?
What is Bradycardia?
Hardening or thickening of the arterial walls.
What is ateriosclerosis?