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Miscellaneous
Functions
Vessels
Valves
Circulation
100
The 2 superior receiving chambers of the heart are known as the _______and the 2 inferior discharging chambers are called the ________.
What is the atria and the ventricles?
100

A recording of the hearts electrical activity is referred to as a(n)__________.

What is electrocardiogram (or EKG, ECG)?

100
Larger blood vessels that carry blood away from the heart are called _______.
What are arteries?
100

The valve located between the right ventricle and the pulmonary artery as blood flows away from the heart towards the lungs.

What is the pulmonary valve?

100

The average adult heart beats about _______ times per minute?

What is 60-100?

200

Another term for high blood pressure

Hypertension

200
Blood leaves the right ventricle through a large artery called the
What is the pulmonary artery?
200
The left atrium receives blood from the lungs via vessels called
What is pulmonary veins?
200

The mitral valve is also known as the ___________.

What is the bicuspid valve?

200

The circulation from the heart to the lungs is called ________ circulation. 

What is pulmonary?

300

A heart attack occurs when there is decreased or complete cessation of blood flow to a portion of the myocardium (heart muscle).  What is the medical term for a heart attack?

What is a myocardial infarction (MI)?

300
Blood flows from the left atria to ________ (valve name and chamber name)

What is bicuspid or mitral valve, left ventricle

300

Arteries carry oxygenated blood away from the heart, while veins carry deoxygenated blood to the heart.

The exceptions to this rule are the _________ arteries and veins.

What is pulmonary?

300

Larger veins have ________ to prevent backflow of blood.

What are valves?

300

The heart sounds are created by the opening and closing of _______ while blood flows through the heart.

What are valves?

400
The structure that divides the left and right ventricles is called the ____________.
What is interventricular septum?
400
The pressure blood exerts against the inner walls of the blood vessel is known as ________.
What is blood pressure?
400

The vessels that bring blood back to the heart. Inferior and superior ____________.

What is the vena cava?

400

When ventricles contract, the bicuspid valve prevents blood from flowing from the ____________.

What is the left ventricle to the left atrium?

400

What vessel pumps blood from the lungs back to the heart?

pulmonary vein

500
The tiny white cords that anchor the cusps or flaps of endocardium to the walls of the ventricles are called______.
What is chordae tendinae?
500

The sac or membrane that encloses the heart.  It prevents friction from surrounding structures and protects the heart.

What is the pericardium?

500

Blood nourishing the myocardium (heart muscle) with oxygenated blood comes from vessels that branch off the aorta called______

What is coronary arteries?

500

The tricuspid valve is located between the ____________.

What is the right atrium and right ventricle?

500

This tiny blood vessel carries oxygenated blood and is the connector between the arteries and the capillaries.

What is an arteriole?