Parts of the Heart
The human heart has this many chambers.
What is four?
This type of blood vessel carries blood away from the heart.
What are arteries?
This word means moving upward.
What is ascending?
These string-like parts help hold heart valves in place.
What are the chordae tendineae?
This side of the heart pumps blood to the lungs.
What is the right side of the heart?
This side of the heart sends blood to the lungs.
What is the right side of the heart?
This type of blood vessel carries blood to the heart.
What are veins?
This prefix means three.
What is tri?
These muscles help valves open and close correctly.
What are papillary muscles?
This chamber is found on the left side and pumps blood to the body.
What is the left ventricle?
The bicuspid valve is better known by this name.
What is the mitral valve?
Blood moves from the left atrium through this valve to reach the left ventricle.
What is the left AV (mitral/bicuspid) valve?
This word means the tip or pointed end of a structure.
What is the apex?
These vessels bring oxygen to the heart muscle.
What are the coronary arteries?
This valve is found on the right side of the heart.
What is the tricuspid valve?
Oxygen-poor blood is usually shown as this color in diagrams.
What is blue?
This blood vessel brings oxygen-poor blood from the body into the right atrium of the heart.
What is the vena cava (superior or inferior)?
This word means below or lower in position.
What is inferior?
This heart structure surrounds and protects the heart.
What is the pericardium?
This chamber on the right side receives blood from the body.
What is the right atrium?
Name the four chambers of the heart:
left atrium, left ventricle, right atrium, right ventricle
This is the largest artery in the body and carries blood from the heart to the rest of the body.
What is the aorta?
This term means toward the front of the body.
What is anterior?
This heart layer is made of muscle and does the pumping work.
What is the myocardium?
This valve is found on the left side of the heart and has two flaps.
What is the bicuspid (mitral) valve?