This contracts sending sending deoxygenated blood through the pulmonic valve into the pulmonary artery
What is the Right Ventricle
100
The build-up of fats, cholesterol, and other substances in and on the artery walls.
What is Atherosclerosis/Arteriosclerosis.
100
This drains the upper portions of the body (head and arms).
What is the Superior Vena Cava.
100
This is determined both by the amount of blood your heart pumps and the amount of resistance to blood flow in your arteries.
What is blood pressure.
100
A thin, double-layered sac which encloses the heart.
What is Pericardium.
200
Deoxygenated blood enters this from the vena cava.
What is the Right Atrium.
200
A group of lung diseases that block airflow and make it difficult to breathe.
What is Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease.
200
This drains the lower parts of the body.
What is the Inferior Vena Cava.
200
A clot that forms in the blood vessel and remains stationary within the vessel, obstructing or blocking blood flow.
What is Thrombus.
200
The four chambers of the heart.
What are the right and left ventricles and the right and left artias.
300
Blood travels through this to get to the lungs to be oxygenated.
What is the Pulmonary Artery.
300
A chronic condition that affects the way the body processes blood sugar (glucose).
What is Diabetes 2.
300
Deoxygenated blood enters the heart through this chamber.
What is the Right Atrium.
300
A clot that is traveling from the site where it formed through the bloodstream.
What is Embolus.
300
The muscular layer of the heart (epicardium, myocardium, endocardium).
What is the Myocardium.
400
From the right atrium blood travels through this valve.
What is the Tricuspid valve.
400
A condition in which the force of the blood against the artery walls is too high.
What is Hypertension.
400
A three-flap valve that opens whenever blood is pushed through it by the contractions of the atrium.
What is the Tricuspid Valve.
400
The “ballooning” of an artery wall at a point where the wall has weakened.
What is Aneurysm.
400
This valve has two leaflets, and also has the chordae tendineae to reinforce them.
What is the Mitral (bicuspid) valve.
500
From the Tricuspid valve blood travels to this ventricle.
What is the Right Ventricle.
500
Damage to the brain from interruption of its blood supply.
What is Stroke.
500
This chamber receives deoxygenated blood from the right atrium, and contracts to push blood up to the lungs.
What is the Right Ventricle.
500
Breaking, or rupturing, of an artery wall causing profuse bleeding (either internal or external).
What is Hemorrhage.
500
This is the largest artery of the body, receiving oxygen-rich blood from the left ventricle and moving it through the rest of the body via other smaller arteries and veins.