Right Side
This chamber of the heart receives deoxygenated blood from the body.
What is the right atrium?
This is also known as the bicuspid valve.
What is the mitral valve?
This blood vessel carries oxygen-rich blood away from the heart and out to the body.
What are arteries?
This is the meaning of “pulm”.
What is lung?
This valve allows blood to flow from the right atrium to the right ventricle but prevents backflow.
What is the tricuspid valve?
This chamber is the first stop for oxygenated blood returning from the lungs.
What is the left atrium?
These upper chambers of the heart receive blood returning from the body and lungs.
What are the atria?
This heart structure is responsible for initiating the electrical impulse that regulates the heart’s rhythm.
What is the sinoatrial (SA) node?
This chamber pumps deoxygenated blood to the lungs via the pulmonary artery.
What is the right ventricle?
This largest artery in the body starts its journey from the left ventricle.
What is the aorta?
These blood vessels have valves.
What are veins?
This is the amount of times the heart pumps per day.
What is 100,000 times a day?
This is the large vein that brings deoxygenated blood from the lower body to the right atrium.
What is the inferior vena cava
The left ventricle has thicker walls than the right side because it pumps blood here.
What is the entire body?
This layer of the heart wall is responsible for the heart’s powerful contractions.
What is the myocardium?
This type of blood vessel is the site where oxygen and nutrients are exchanged between blood and tissues.
What are capillaries?
This valve controls blood flow between the right ventricle and the pulmonary artery.
What is the pulmonary valve?
This term describes the pressure the left ventricle must overcome to eject blood into the aorta during systole.
What is afterload?
This is the name of the outer layer of the heart, which protects it and reduces friction.
What is the pericardium?
This mnemonic is helpful to remember the flow of the heart.
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