Anatomy
Your heart is about the size of one of these.
What is your fist?
A contraction of the heart
What is a systole?
All five types of blood vessels.
What are:
- Artery
- Arterioles
- Veins
- Venules
- Capillaries
The top number of blood pressure
What is systolic?
Backflow of blood in veins leading to twisted and enlarged veins
What is a varicose vein?
The largest bone in the human body
What is the femur?
Prevent the backflow of blood.
What are valves?
The SA node, the AV node, and Bachmans bundle are all a part of this
What is the intrinsic conduction system
The largest tunica
High blood pressure
What is hypertension?
Brain cells die due to a lack of blood
What is a stroke?
The heart is in this cavity (2 answers acceptable)
What is the thoracic cavity OR the pericardial cavity?
The three recognizable waves on an EKG.
What are P, QRS, and T waves?
Carry blood away from the heart.
What are arteries?
The highest normal blood pressure
It goes around blockages in the coronary artery
What is heart bypass surgery?
The long part of the neuron
What is the axon?
Open when atria contract
Atrioventricular (AV) valves
Also known as a pacemaker, this starts each heartbeat.
Must be able to withstand high blood pressure.
What are arteries?
All three main causes of high blood pressure
What are smoking, obesity, and lack of exercise?
The other name of a heart attack
What is myocardial infarction?
The fractured bone is still aligned
What is a non-displaced fracture?
Blood supply to the myocardium.
What is coronary circulation?
The average heartrate.
What is 75 BPM?
Have larger lumen and valves
What are veins?
What are the ventricles?
What are:
- Coronary Artery Disease
- Arrythmia
- Cardiomyopathy
- Heart Infection
- Structural Defects
The plane that divides the body equally into left and right sections
What is the mid-sagittal plane?
The apex of the heart rests on this.
What is the diaphragm?
A heartrate under 60 BPM.
What is bradycardia?
Have transparent walls that are one cell thick.
What are capillaries?
The force that pushes fluids out of capillaries
What is blood pressure?
The build up of plaque in arteries
What is atherosclerosis?
Controls long term memory
What is the hippocampus?
Hold the AV flaps open and closed.
What are the chordae tendineae?
What is dub/dup?
Moves blood through the digestive system and other stomach organs.
What is the hepatic portal (vein)?
The place where a pulse is most often taken
What is the radial artery?
A hole in the wall between atrias
What is an atrial septal defect?
The outer surface of the bone
What is the periosteum?
The serous membrane around the heart.
What is the pericardial sac?
The amount of blood pumped by each ventricle in one minute.
What is cardiac output?
Protects the brain by allowing blood to reach it in more than one way.
What is the Circle of Willis?
The force that draws fluids into capillaries
What is osmotic pressure?
An infection of the lining of the heart
What is endocarditis?
The cavity that contains the bladder and reproductive organs
What is the pelvic cavity?
The three layers of the heart wall, from the outermost to the innermost.
What are the epicardium, myocardium, and endocardium?
Wave that signifies the depolarization of ventricles
What is the QRS waves?
The blood flow of blood to a fetus.
What is: Placenta, unbilical vein, umbilical artery, placenta
Used to help diffuse substances between capillaries and cells
What is interstitial fluid?
The type of stroke that is caused by a brain bleed
What is hemorrhagic?
Controls language understanding
What is Wernicke's area?