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400

Describe the chordae tendineae during atrial systole

What is slack/relaxed

400

What causes the S2 heart sound?



What is the closure of the semilunar valves

400

This branch of the aorta supplies the liver and spleen

What is the celiac trunk

400

When I bind to a PAMP, I stimulate phagocytosis.



What is PRR

400

Why can’t we see atrial repolarization on the ECG graph?

What is since the QRS complex is so large, it masks atrial repolarization. 

600

This structure provides a structural foundation for the heart valves

What is fibrous skeleton rings 

600

Where can the heart sounds from the closure of the bicuspid valve be heard?

What is the fifth intercostal space

600

This type of vessel creates most of the resistance in circulation

What is arterioles

600

What are the three main antigen presenting cells? 



What is macrophages, dendritic cells, and B lymphocytes



600

Along with valves, these two pumps help lymph flow through the body

What is skeletal muscle and respiratory pump

800

Inflammation of this part of the heart wall typically affects the valves

What is the endocardium

800

When measuring blood pressure, these sounds are generated when blood flow begins in an artery that was compressed with a blood pressure cuff

What is Korotkoff sounds

800

This type of artery has the greatest amount of smooth muscle

What is muscular arteries

800

What are the four clinical hallmarks of inflammation?

What is rubor (redness), calor (heat), tumor (swelling), dolor (pain)

800

An Rh- mother is pregnant with her first baby who is Rh+. To prevent _____ disease of her second Rh+ child, the mother will be given _____.

What is hemolytic; RhoGAM

1000

What is the role of the subvalvular apparatus attached to AV valves?

What is to prevent valve prolapse (*not to open/close the valves)

1000

Which chambers of the heart are contracting when the S3 sound is heard?

What is none of them

1000

This type of capillary can be found in the kidneys

What is fenestrated

1000

You’ve been feeling under the weather recently and decide to go to the doctors for a check up. To your surprise, your doctor tells you that you’ve caught a case of broken-heartitis, a novel disease to you. What antibody class would be present in your blood the most?

What is IgM

1000

Which clotting factor needed to form prothrombinase in the intrinsic pathway is not present in the extrinsic pathway?



What is clotting factor 12

1200

This would be the permanent treatment for valve stenosis

What is Balloon Valvuloplasty

1200

How would the  phonocardiogram of someone who has aortic semilunar valve stenosis differ from normal?

What is the sound would be detected between S1 and S2

1200

During low levels of activity, this structure will reduce blood flow to the true capillary

What is precapillary sphincters

1200

We are small organs that are distributed throughout the body and when our host gets sick we get bigger…what are we and why do we expand?

What is lymph nodes; we get bigger because our cells are dividing at the area we are located in

1200

A patient has a mean arterial blood pressure of 90 mmHg and a normal diastolic pressure. What would their pulse pressure be?

What is 30 mmHg