These are the top "receiving" chambers of the heart.
What are the (right and left) atria?
100
These are the large muscular chambers that pump blood away from the heart.
What are the ventricles?
100
This is what an EKG measures.
What is the electrical signal sent by the conduction system of the heart.
100
This disease is also called a heart attack.
What is a myocardial infarction?
100
This is the term for swelling.
What is edema?
200
This is the pumping chamber that sends blood out of the heart to the lungs.
What is the right ventricle?
200
This is the strongest chamber of the heart.
What is the left ventricle?
200
This part of the conduction system in the heart creates the P wave.
What is the SA Node (pacemaker)?
200
This is a heart rate greater than 100 beats per minute.
What is tachycardia?
200
This is described as a heart rate under 60 beats per minute.
What is Bradycardia?
300
These are the parts of the conduction system that send the signal from the bundle branches deep into the walls of the ventricles.
What are the Purkinje Fibers?
300
This is a representation of the average size of the human heart.
What is a fist?
300
This the wave that shows the relaxation and resetting of the heart muscle.
What is the T wave?
300
A patient receives an MRI for a back condition, but the doctors instead find a weakened, bulging section in his abdominal aorta. This is the disorder he has.
What is an aneurysm?
300
This is the disorder described as chronic high blood pressure. This can be due to diet or genetics.
What is hypertension?
400
These are the causes of the heart sounds (lub dup), in order of closure.
What are the AV valves (Bi and Tricuspid), and the Semilunar valves (Aortic and Pulmonary)
400
This is the part of the nervous system that is responsible for accelerating heart rate.
What is the sympathetic nervous system?
400
The QRS complex represents the muscular contraction of these parts of the heart.
What are the ventricles?
400
This disease leads to many others and is marked by thickening and hardening of the arteries. Arteries may also be blocked by plaque and may be closed off completely.
What is arteriosclerosis (atherosclerosis)?
400
This is the reason that so much damage is caused to the heart muscle during a heart attack.
What is loss of blood supply and therefore oxygen to the heart muscle.
500
This part of the conduction system is responsible for allowing the atria to contract before the ventricles begin contracting. It does this by pausing the signal sent by the pacemaker.
What is the AV node?
500
This is the reason that we need to have valves in our heart.
What is one directional blood flow in the heart?
500
A patient presents with an EKG that lacks QRS complexes. They have normal P waves, followed by a pause. This is the disorder that they have.
What is heart block?
500
A patient presents with congestive heart failure on the left side. You can expect this part of their body to be congested and filled with fluid.
What are the lungs?
500
This disease is a formation of clots in the lower leg veins, causing muscle cramps and occasionally an embolism in the blood, which can cause heart attack or stroke.