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The Heart
The Electric Pathway
The Blood
Blood Vessels
Common Disorders
100
What type of muscle is the heart made of?
What is cardiac muscle
100
Specialized cells that create an electric impulse.
What is nodal cells (pacemaker cells)
100
The pigment in blood that is responsible for transporting oxygen
What is red hemoglobin
100
Blood vessels that carry the blood back to the heart.
What are veins
100
This is known as hardening of the arteries and causes Peripheral Vascular disease.
What is arteriosclerosis
200
This prevents blood from flowing into the right atrium.
What is tricuspid valve.
200
The two groups of pacemaker cells.
What is Sinoatrial node (SA) and atrioventricular node (AV).
200
The pH value measures this in blood.
What is acidity and alkalinity.
200
The smallest arteries
What is arterieles.
200
An inherited clotting disorder.
What is hemophilia
300
The structure that separates the lower chambers of the heart.
What is interventricular septum
300
The group of pacemaker cells that are located near the entrance of the superior vena cava?
What is SA node
300
The blood type that is considered a universal recipient.
What is AB
300
The vessel that brings the blood to the heart from the pelvic region and lower extremities.
What is inferior vena cava
300
Condition usually found in the legs, where blood pools in the veins because the veins have become dilated and distorted.
What is Varicose veins
400
The condition when the heart beat is below 60 beats per minute.
What is bradycardia
400
Another types of specialized cells that carry the impulse to the contractile muscle cells of the ventricles.
What is Purkinje fibers.
400
The cells involved in the production of antibodies.
What are lymphocytes.
400
The substance that decreases the body's ability to clot.
What is asprin.
400
inherited condition in which red blood cells and hemoglobin molecules do not form properly.
What is sickle cell anemia
500
abnormal heart rhythms
What are arrhythmias
500
The first wave on an EKG that corresponds to the contraction of the atria
What is P wave.
500
Type B blood has ___________ antigens and ______________ antibodies.
What is B antigens and Anti-A antibodies.
500
When heart rate decreases, BP ____________ and when heart rate increases, BP _______________.
What is decreases and increases
500
Tissue death.
What is Myocardial infarct