Name That Structure 1
Which vessel distributes oxygenated blood from the heart to the rest of the body?
What is the pericardium?
Blood entering the right atrium from the vena cava is coming from where?
What is the body?
The vena cava feeds blood into this chamber.
What is the right atrium?
Blood returning from the body towards the right atrium has what oxygen content.
What is deoxygenated blood?
Another name for the mitral valve.
What is the bicuspid valve?
What is the septum?
The pulmonary artery sends deoxygenated blood to these organs.
What are the lungs?
Valve that prevents blood from flowing backward into the left atrium when the left ventricle contracts.
What is the mitral valve?
Tiny blood vessels that allow exchange of oxygen and nutrients between blood and cells.
What are capillaries?
The sound of the heartbeat is due to these structures and their movement.
What are the valves opening and closing?
This cavity houses the heart and lungs.
What is the thoracic cavity?
This valve prevents blood from flowing backward into the right atrium when the right ventricle contracts.
What is the tricuspid valve?
Blood entering the inferior vena cava is returning from what part of the body?
What is the lower body?
The oxygen content of blood entering the aortic arch.
What is oxygenated blood?
The vessels that return oxygen-rich blood from the lungs to the heart.
What are the pulmonary veins?
This structure separates the thoracic cavity and the abdominal cavity.
What is the diaphragm?
Which vessel carries blood from the heart to the lungs to pick up oxygen?
What is the pulmonary artery
This chamber contracts blood through the aortic valve and into the aortic arch.
What is the left ventricle?
The oxygen content of capillary blood diffusing into the tissues.
What is oxygenated blood?
The pointed end of the heart.
What is the apex?
The medical term for the cardiac muscle that makes up the heart.
This chamber contracts blood through the pulmonary valve and into the pulmonary artery.
What is the right ventricle?
The pulmonary veins feed blood in this chamber.
What is the left atrium?
Blood traveling back toward the heart from body tissues contains a higher amount of what gas?
What is carbon dioxide?