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This is the job of the heart.
These blood vessels carry blood away from the heart.
What are arteries?
This is the sound the heart makes.
What is lub-dub?
Use this to listen to heart sounds.
What is a stethoscope?
This is the most common symptom in a heart attack.
What is chest pain/discomfort?
This is the size of a heart.
What is the size of your fist?
These blood vessels bring blood back to the heart.
What are the veins?
The 'lub-dub' are also known as these sounds.
What is S1 (lub) and S2 (dub)?
Blood enters the heart into this chamber.
What is the right Atrium?
This is the medical term for a heart attack.
What is a myocardial infarction?
These are the top chambers of the heart.
What are the atria? (left Atrium and right Atrium)
This vessel brings blood to the lungs.
What is the pulmonary artery?
The heart sounds occur when this happens.
What is when the valves close?
Blood flows through this Valve from the left Atrium into the left ventricle.
What is the mitral valve?
This is the main artery/vessel that blood is pumped out of the heart into.
What is the aorta?
This is the main chamber of heart pumping blood to entire body.
What is the left ventricle?
These vessels bring blood back to the heart from the lungs.
This Valve closes to make the S1 (lub) sound.
What is the mitral (or tricuspid) valve?
This large vein brings blood back from the top part of the body back to the heart.
What is the superior vena cava?
The blood vessels branch off the aorta and provide blood to the heart itself.
What are the coronary arteries?
This chamber of the heart pumps blood to the lungs.
What is the right ventricle?
These small vessels allow oxygen to be released into the tissues.
What are the capillaries?
This Valve closes to make the S2 (dub) sound?
What are the aortic (and pulmonic) valve?
This large vein bring blood back from the bottom part of the body back to heart.
What is the Inferior Vena Cava?
This forms in a coronary artery when someone is having a heart attack.
What is a blood clot?