The blood vessel that carries blood into the liver.
What is the hepatic portal vein?
100
The term that means contraction; it is related to blood pressure.
What is Systole?
100
The term that means relaxation; it is related to blood pressure.
What is Diastole?
200
Right renal.
What is the kidney?
200
External iliac.
What is the common iliac vein?
200
The blood vessel that carries blood out of the liver.
What are the hepatic veins?
200
The "pacemaker" of the heart.
What is the sinoatrial node?
200
The conduction system of the heart located in the outer ventricular walls.
What is Purkinje fibers?
300
External iliac.
What is the femoral artery?
300
Left renal.
What is the inferior vena cava?
300
Where blood goes after it comes out of the liver via the hepatic veins.
What is the inferior vena cava?
300
The electrical event that causes contraction in the heart.
What is depolarization?
300
The electrical event that causes relaxation in the heart.
What is repolarization?
400
Brachiocephalic.
What are the right subclavian and right common carotid?
400
Right brachiocephalic.
What is the superior vena cava?
400
Explain the significance of the hepatic portal system.
What is to drain the abdominal organs and allow the liver to process the blood before going to the rest of the body?
400
The portion of an EKG that indicates the repolarization of the ventricles.
What is T-wave?
400
The portion of an EKG that indicates the depolarization of the ventricles.
What is QRS complex?
500
Aorta (first 5 branches).
What are the right and left coronary arteries, brachiocephalic, left common carotid, and left subclavian?
500
Right internal jugular.
What is the right brachiocephalic?
500
Give all of the blood vessels involved and the organs they drain.
What is:
The inferior mesenteric drains the large intestine.
The superior mesenteric drains the small intestine.
The right and left gastric veins drain the stomach.
The splenic vein drains the speen.
These four veins converge to form the hepatic portal vein.
The hepatic portal vein goes to the liver.
The liver processes the blood.
The hepatic veins take blood out of the liver and into the inferior vena cava.