Heart Anatomy
Upper chambers of the heart.
What are atria?
The type of blood found in the right chambers of the heart.
What is deoxygenated?
A vessel that carries blood toward the heart and has valves.
What are veins?
The side of the heart with more coronary arteries.
What is the left?
As blood vessels increase in size, blood pressure ____.
What is decreases?
Layer of pericardium next to the heart.
What is the visceral pericardium?
What is the right atrium?
Purpose of valves.
What is keep blood flowing in one direction?
Pain caused by short term lack of blood to the heart, aka choked chest.
What is angina pectoris?
Top number of a blood pressure reading; represents pressure when ventricles contract.
What is systolic?
Purpose of serous fluid (between parietal and visceral pericardium).
What is to reduce friction?
Where blood flows after leaving the right ventricle.
What are the lungs?
Blood vessels where gas exchange occurs.
What are capillaries?
Fancy word for heart attack; caused by prolonged coronary blockage.
What is myocardial infarction?
Bottom number of a blood pressure reading; represents pressure when ventricles relax.
What is diastolic?
The 4 valves.
What are tricuspid, pulmonary, bicuspid (mitral), and aortic?
Gas exchange in the lungs: _______ is dropped off and _______ is picked up.
What is carbon dioxide and oxygen?
Blood vessels that are thicker and stretchy.
What are arteries?
The heart's natural pacemaker; located in the right atrium.
What is the sinoatrial (SA) node?
Pressure wave of blood.
What is pulse?
The 4 blood vessels attached to the heart.
What are the vena cava, pulmonary arteries, pulmonary veins, and aorta?
Where blood flows after leaving the left ventricle.
What is through the aorta/to the body?
Term for blood vessels getting bigger.
What is vasodilation?
The sequence of conduction in the heart.
What is SA node to AV node to ventricles?
Blood vessels in which you measure blood pressure.
What are arteries?