Blood Vessels
This vessel contains a high amount of elastic tissue to support high pressure blood flow that it has to sustain.
What is the aorta?
These are the four compartments of the heart.
What is the right atrium, the left atrium, the right ventricle, the left ventricle?
This is the valve that connect the left atrium from the left ventricle.
What is the mitral valve?
An organ that supplies blood and oxygen to all parts of the body.
What is the heart?
this external structure expands when the right atrium fills with blood
what is the right auricle?
These are the blood vessels that carry oxygenated blood from the lungs to the heart.
What are the pulmonary veins?
This is the first compartment of the heart that receives venous blood from the body
What is the right atrium?
This is a valve that connects the right atrium to the right ventricle.
What is the tricuspid valve?
This is where oxygen is exchanged with carbon dioxide in the circulation.
What is a capillary?
this structure separates the left and right ventricles.
what is the interventricular septum?
These tubes transport blood away from the heart.
What are arteries?
This chamber receives blood from the lungs via the pulmonary vein.
What is the left atrium?
This valve prevents the backflow of blood into the left ventricle.
what is the aortic semilunar valve?
This blood vessel carries blood away from the left ventricle to the body.
What is the aorta?
These muscles are attached to the chordae tendineae and prevent the AV valves from prolapsing (turning out) during ventricular contraction.
what are the papillary muscles?
These tubes transport blood to the heart.
What are veins?
This side of the heart receives blood without oxygen from the body via the veins.
What is the right heart?
This valve prevents backflow into the left atrium.
what is the left atrioventricular/bicuspid/mitral valve?
This carries deoxygenated blood from the head, neck and upper extremities into the right atrium.
What is the superior vena cava?
This elastic vessel has the highest amount of pressure exerted on it.
what is the aorta/aortic arch/ascending aorta?
these vessels bring blood from the right ventricle to the lungs
what are the pulmonary arteries?
The most anterior portion of the heart.
what is the apex?
This valve prevents backflow of blood into the right ventricle.
what is the pulmonary semilunar valve?
Delivers nutrients to the cells and removes wastes that are produced during cellular processes.
What is blood?
These attach to the AV valves and act as anchors to prevent the prolapse of valves.
what is the chordae tendineae?